Essays on cultural criticism

The focus of the paper "Theoretical Orientations in Cultural Criticism" is on examining how have theoretical orientations in Cultural Criticism evolved and changed since 1900? process of analyzing the structural significance and problems in a given work of art by making an external comparison.... Bearing in mind the important role that art plays in the global social-cultural theory, the study of contemporary art theory and criticism is invaluable for one to carry out art research. It provides insight...

The Big Lebowski – A Cultural Criticism This 1998 movie The Big Lebowski, directed by Joel Coen begins by introducing us to the male protagonist Jeffrey Lebowski (enacted by Jeff Bridges) who is also know as the “Dude”. He is an avid bowler and visits the bowling alley with his best friends Walter and Donny.... One day the Dude is attacked in his own house by two men who claimed that they owe money from Lebowski's wife. It is found out that he has been mistaken for the real Jeffrey Lebowski who...

This paper "Cultural Criticism of My Dad Is A Liar Commercial" intends to explore how rhetorical strategies has been used in the commercial My Dad Is A Liar and the effect the non-material ideas and ideals it is selling on the viewers and on culture.... The world is made up of many people constantly trying to persuade us into trying different things and doing certain things. To achieve these they employ different tactics depending with what they are selling, whether it is an actual item or an idea....

bell hooks would equate Eminem with misogynistic in her film (bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation, 1997).... When she was talking about rappers in her film, bell hook used gansta rap as an example of woman degradation, it is likely she would condemn Eminem on this issue as well (bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation, 1997).... ell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation.... “The Riddle of the Zoot: Malcolm Little and Black cultural Politics ...

The major themes the author presents include Cultural Criticism, technology and cognitive abilities, and intellectual history.... Cultural Criticism features prominently in the book.... The major themes the author presents include Cultural Criticism, technology and cognitive abilities, and intellectual history.... ultural criticism features prominently in the book.... Carr presents debatable arguments in the book as he explores the consequences of the Internet, especially on the intellectual and cultural spheres....

Logics of television: Essays in Cultural Criticism, 222-39.... According to Pearce (2000), this is because these terms have less clear distinction in their meaning.... Their definitions are overlapping.... However,.... ... ... According to the Oxford Canadian Dictionary (qtd.... n Pearce, 2000) the term emergency refers to a serious situation....

Displacing whiteness: essays in social and Cultural Criticism.... d=dGgiqHMs3vMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Displacing+whiteness:+essays+in+social+and+cultural+criticism&client=firefox-a&cd=1#v=onepage&q=Displacing%20whiteness%3A%20essays%20in%20social%20and%20cultural%20criticism&f=false Escobar J Edward; Race, Police, and the making of a political identity: Mexican Americans and....

"Semiotics and Cultural Criticism” Cultural Criticism: A Primer of Key Concepts.... Analyzing Messages carried in an Advertisement Human communication is commonly presumed to rely on hearing and interpreting textual information.... However, it must be realized that visual information is more powerful than these two mediums put together....

This paper ''Bell Hooks as an Academic Person'' tells us that Bell Hooks as an academic and intellectual person, emphasizes popular cultural trends which decode or become the foundation of racism of any kind.... Only intellectual or critical thinking can help to deal with these popular and embossed cultural thoughts aside, and reframe an individual's life with the core idea of enhancement....

“Moving Beyond the Politics of Blame: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” Desire of the Analysts: Psychoanalysis and Cultural Criticism, ed.... The book ‘Let us Now Praise Famous Men' came up out of an assignment to James Agee who did the text and Walker Evans who did the photos, to produce a magazine article on the conditions among white sharecroppers families in the US South during dust prowl....

In the words of the famous historian Charles Rosenberg, the medicine's conceptual foundations ……… (came) under increasing attack as a result of the marriage of Cultural Criticism and antipositivism” (Goldstein, Manlowe, 1997, Pp.... he amalgamation of Cultural Criticism and anti positivism that inspired an in depth examination and investigation about the purported competence, objectivism, omniscience, as well as neutrality of the bio medicinal implications that dominated the sixties and seventies era were further popularized and carried on through the eighties as well....

Projects of construction of art museums are out to provide forum of Cultural Criticism of new found space of democracy.... Projects of construction of art museums are out to provide forum of Cultural Criticism of new found space of democracy.... The essay "Ways in Which cultural Studies Have Political Effect" will discuss the political impact of cultural studies and how culture shapes the political landscape.... The article illustrates a paradigm shift from cultural studies to cultural research....

istinctions concluded that extreme relativity in Cultural Criticism is valued only social status, even though it is done unconsciously.... Bourdieu further stated that all Cultural Criticism is based on one distinction between the two classes: the dominated and the dominant class, which begins with nature of animals compared to the culture of humans.... He worked on how the knowledge and usage of different cultural relics have shaped over time....

In the book, “Logics of Television: Essays in Cultural Criticism” , Jane Gaines assert in the essay, “Superman and the Protective Strength of the Trademark” that there are two other important ways apart from the consideration of Umberto Eco, by which Superman as a character can be evaluated accordingly following the recent development in the cultural studies.... Logics of Television: Essays in Cultural Criticism.... This evolution of comic character into first American superhero followed by a superhero genre in America particularly which is adapted in broadcasting and literary arena across the globe now engineered many more avenues for literary, cultural, psychological and mythological criticism formulating many school of thoughts associated with the transition of one of the most fascinated American comic figures to a cultural idol and ideal to a great extent....

Literary Career Another book that she did was entitled “Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism” (1997) where Frankenberg went deeper into the themes of race and explored the meanings attached to whiteness by looking at socioeconomic, sociocultural and economic interrelations.... Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism, Durham: Duke University Press.... The criticism that "'whites' in the United States historically have been extraordinarily good at not looking inward” (Durso, 2002) appears to be a valid one....

The policies of governments across the world, encouraging such stereotyping has come under criticism and much of them have ceased to exist.... The Politics of cultural Stereotyping in Los Vendidos Professor number The Politics of cultural Stereotyping in Los Vendidos In Los Vendidos, Luis Valdez shows his audience and his readers a world where race was an important mark of one's identity....

These theories encourage and assist readers in thinking as they read, and thinking even more after they read.... In reading literature, choosing the right critical reading strategies can help understand the text.... ... ... In “Humorously Masculine--Or Humor as Masculinity--In Light in August,” Clarke provides a biographical and feminist analysis of Faulkner's Light in August....

William Butter Yeats is one of the main 20th Century English language poets and his poetry has ensconced him at the place where numerous of his contemporaries failed to reach.... His prevailing symbolic poetry differentiates his concepts of driving understanding of his poems.... ... ... Yeats used the diction, which is an important aspect in his writing....

The focus of this paper "Poof by Lynn Nottage" is on a short play that centers on a woman, called Loureen, who is abused by her husband, Samuel, with the story also featuring Loureen's skeptical friend called Florence.... All that Loureen ever does is wish hell for the man.... ... ... ... Nottage's play advances the traditional role of women as being dutiful to their husbands and traditionally performing roles that were inferior to their husbands....

Culture and the Real: Theorizing Cultural Criticism.... The paper "The Film Crossing Over about cultural Diversity in the America" shows us that crossing over is a movie that explains the cause of cultural diversity in American.... We can conclude the discussion by understanding that cultural diversity may result in various implications of the native original culture.... cultural Analysis Introduction Culture can be defined as the practices that describe a society and are used to identify people from a region or community....

He worked for Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism from 1980 to 1995, which deals in publishing of essays and articles through film studies, photographs and media theory.... Name: Course Name: Instructor: Date: Essay, Visual Arts and Film Studies the End of Reading's Analysis Introduction Visual literacy is an important aspect in education; this is well expounded upon in the book, End of Reading: Gutenberg to Grand Theft Auto written by David Trend....

While Martin Luther King was raised by a middle-class family that placed a lot of emphasis on education, Malcolm X was raised in an underprivileged environment.... The credit of his education.... ... ... Martin Luther King's family was well established in Atlanta and his parents mutually provided him with a secure and healthy environment in spite of their separation....

The crucial approaches to Atwood's works from the angle of mythology, literary criticism and Cultural Criticism and other topics are presented in the book.... The book portrays the author's development as a writer of international fame.... The famous works of the author including ‘Death by....

And when I write provocative social and Cultural Criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action.... The paper 'Bell Hooks Is Teaching to Transgress' promotes Watkins' paradigm of academic education, where a teacher is not just a statistician, but a guru involving students into the search for new meanings, insights, and discoveries to form a generation aware of their great power and responsibility....

Critical research has a value orientation that: 1) uses social and Cultural Criticism, 2) opposes all kinds of inequality, 3) exposes oppression and fights it, 4) studies all forms of oppression, and 5) avoids mainstream epistemology that supports status quo oppression and uses critical epistemology to dismantle unequal power relations (Noblit, 2005, p....

And so, current appearance of Cultural Criticism transforms into pricing and advertising (Stahl, 2010, p.... In particular, this statement refers to traditional Cultural Criticism which either took art for granted as a whole or glorified it as something divine (Stahl, 2010, p.... Philosophy and Social criticism, 30 (4), pp.... He became popular nowadays as a critic of modern societies in terms of cultural industry and totality....

, Whitening race: essays in social and Cultural Criticism, Aboriginal Studies Press ... irlik, A 1994, ‘The postcolonial aura: Third world criticism in the age of global capitalism,' Critical Inquiry, vol.... As boundaries became blurred and indistinct, political, social, economic, and cultural distinctions are increasingly diminished facilitating global assimilation where dominant forces can easily overrun weaker ones.... As boundaries became blurred and indistinct, political, social, economic and cultural distinctions are increasingly diminished facilitating global assimilation where dominant forces can easily overrun weaker ones....

arxism must be remolding into a form of ideological and Cultural Criticism ... nowledge-Constitutive Interest - a function of the objectively constituted problems of the preservation of life that have been solved by the cultural form of existence. ... In cultural development, it contains the extension of forms of communication free from distortion and domination.... cultural critique cannot be disengaged from political critique. ...

he cultural and visual theorist Tom Mitchell notes that: It is a commonplace of modern Cultural Criticism that images have a power in our world undreamed of by the ancient idolaters.... The coursework "Visual Culture and Communication" describes the origin of Uncle Sam.... This paper outlines Uncle Sam as a recruiter symbol, Uncle Sam in political cartoons and parodies, the concept of patriotism, Uncle Sam's message to stand up and make a difference....

I desire to deepen my research with emancipatory, liberatory, and decolonized understandings of leadership ideology, curriculum theory, and Cultural Criticism.... Therefore, I can confidently ascertain that I am a first-generation student who was plagued throughout the P-20 years with self-doubt and chronic self-criticism about whether I could succeed in my educational career.... cultural Studies Interfield Degree ApplicationI hereby seek for consideration in the faculty of cultural Studies for the Ph....

Carr has also indulged in Cultural Criticism and its digression with the advent of the Internet.... The paper "What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains" describes that Nicholas Carr has exhibited the ability to represent and write about the technical dimensions of our life in a very philosophical and culturally relevant manner....

The multi-methodological approach of Du Bois prefigures modern African American studies' attitudes since it was intensely dialectical, critical of conventional disciplines' oversight of vital class, gender, race, and cultural problems, and concerned with drawing from and donating to global and diasporan African social-campaigners and political-theoretical traditions.... As he developed his discussion, several theories and themes were either accepted or cast off dependent on specific cultural and historical circumstances that reiteratively assists to emphasize the idea that his political and social theory was intensely founded in culture and history....

The (E) Journal of Cultural Criticism, 2(3). ... The Trouble with Carol: The Costs of Feeling Good in Todd Haynes's [Safe] and the American cultural Landscape.... The paper "The Use of Mise-en-scene to Portray Carols Lack of Identity in Safe Film" discusses that as if to emphasize the reader's observation, towards the end of the film, Carol is seen looking at herself in the mirror and saying 'I love you' to her bruised and pale reflection....

This paper, Unplugging Philco, declares that the modern dystopia written according to the best traditions of '1984' and 'Brave New World' has it all what is needed for a demanding reader: clever and up-to-date message, Cultural Criticism, sarcastic approach and the free flow of words.... t seems that the modern dystopia written according to the best traditions of “1984” and “”Brave New World” has it all what is needed for a demanding reader: clever and up-to-date message, Cultural Criticism, sarcastic approach and free flow of words....

owe further posits a historicist model of “linguistic codes” of Old English texts, which “registers connections between various levels and sectors within cultural groups” and therefore would reveal “that culture's vision of itself” while rendering a Cultural Criticism that attempts to understand the past on its own ground, at least as that ground is fashioned and negotiated in written texts”39.... As such, he puts forward a Cultural Criticism which “relates the texts and contexts of our discipline to issues of our politically charged advocates of New Historicism: What does our crucial practice do to change the world in which we live?...

“A Brief History of Anti-Americanism: From Cultural Criticism to Terrorism.... Revel' Anti-Americanism argues that while there are valid reasons why hatred or criticism on the U.... ?? (Hertsgaard 21) The first criticism is based on what Hertsgaard views as the U.... big business, the government, and the military that are the subjects of their opposition and criticism.... “Between Anti-Americanism, criticism of America and Americanism....

The next generation of Cultural Criticism in Britain is welcomed by a new group of critics like Raymond Williams and Richard Hoggart, who emphasised the influence of British academic culture.... This essay "Raymond Williams and His Contribution to the Study of Culture" addresses the significant contribution of Raymond Williams to develop the theory of cultural materialist approach in the field of cultural studies and tries to look into the applicability of the elements involved in the process....

An important thinker in this discourse about the concept of 'identity' is Stuart Hall, who was a cultural scholar.... Hall proposes a perspective that seems to be somewhat expected or usual of cultural scholars.... An important thinker in this discourse about the concept of ‘identity' is Stuart Hall, who was a cultural scholar.... Hall proposes a perspective that seems to be somewhat expected or usual of cultural scholars....

In both articles, Cultural Criticism is significantly in use where by many; criticize how the cultural aspects have been misrepresented in both. ... During the 1920s to 1930s, Hollywood would use its own American actors to act a movie originally acted by individuals from foreign cultural backgrounds (Altman 139).... ) How is the explanatory power of this model complicated by aesthetic or cultural considerations? ... During the 1920s to 1930s, Hollywood would use its own American actors to act a movie originally acted by individuals from foreign cultural backgrounds (Altman 139)....

He wanted to have the development of the cultural studies on an ethno-historical perspective and felt the importance of cultural perspectives in presenting "for the images of their racialised others as objects of knowledge, power, and Cultural Criticism" (Gilroy 1993.... "citizens are not only individuals but also members of particular religious, ethnic, cultural and regional communities, which are comparatively stable as well as open and fluid.... "Paul Gilroy's prolific writings on race, diaspora, and national identity can be traced to an intense critical engagement with "the canon" of British cultural studies....

As Andrew Plaks has explained, the word “qui” no longer had negative connotations in late Ming Cultural Criticism; rather it unequivocally indicated something completely new and ingenious and thus carried a strongly positive value” (Plaks, 1991, p.... “A Discourse of Originality in Late Ming Chinese Painting criticism,” Art ... In the analysis and comparison of late Ming and Qing painting traditions, it is important to understand that both traditions were influenced by preceding cultural, socioeconomic and political events....

Alvin Ailey's Politics in the Art of Dance Introduction Alvin Ailey is a dancer and choreographer who is famous for his works that highlight the distinct African American culture.... It was the artist in him that gave the inspiration to open himself to the application of styles that were not within the bounds of traditional dance....

Fashioning Vienna: Adolf Looss Cultural Criticism.... His persistent criticism of ornamentation led to adoption f new and modern architectural designs as a reaction against the exotic styles of the 19th and early 20th century.... This essay "Using Adolf Loos Ornament and Crime" shows that Adolf Loos (1870-1933), one of the most celebrated architects of the 19th century, is a man who many people consider as the father of modern architecture....

This narrative aesthetic specifically implements moral ambiguity, a counter-Cultural Criticism of mainstream American culture, and unconventional narrative structures.... In addition to the glorification of the aforementioned violence, there is additionally the hint of homosexuality, as Clyde subtly insinuates that he has an ambiguous sexuality (‘Criticizing criticism', 2000).... ??Criticizing criticism: The Impact of Auteurism on Bonnie and Clyde', (2000)....

merican quality TV breaks the rules of the established television; it is produced by people of quality aesthetic ancestry outside the field of television; it attracts a blue-chip audience; uses ensemble casts and multiple, overlapping plot lines that indicate literary values; includes social and Cultural Criticism; and creates a new genre by combining old ones.... Another criticism against the so called quality television can be found in Jonathan Bignell's book, “An introduction to television studies” where the author writes, “....

Indeed, there is much in Beuys' pronouncements that may strike us as anachronistic and out of step with the agenda of contemporary Cultural Criticism.... ndeed, there is much in Beuys' pronouncements that may strike us as anachronistic and out of step with the agenda of contemporary Cultural Criticism.... 1) which interpreted the circulation of cultural and thermal energies between art and life.... Reclaiming the Spiritual in Art: Contemporary Cross-cultural Perspectives....

Instead of showing submission and conformity with democratic ethos with an emphasis on collective wisdom and equality through the speech, Socrates employed a form of Cultural Criticism and provocation.... The heavy criticism of Socrates on Athenian democracy not only led to his consideration as a threat to the democratic society but also led to a crisis in 339 B....

300-318 Adorno, T (2000 [1951]) ‘Cultural Criticism and society' in B O'Connor (ed) The Adorno Reader, pp.... As Jarvis states, a Critical Theory of Society seeks to “proceed through the criticism of sociological concepts and of the social experience embedded in them....

Displacing Whiteness: Essay in Social and Cultural Criticism.... n the UK, exclusion can range from differences in skin colour, cultural identity, and economic status.... The English seem to have a sense of cultural hegemony, which they believe represents true British nationalism.... The rural residents claimed that the asylum seekers would erode the cultural identity of the English people (Hubbard 2005, pp....

Not only a scholar of major proportions, Williams was also an ‘exemplary intellectual' for whom political engagement, as much as Cultural Criticism, was a genuine vocation.... Williams' contributions to politics, culture, the mass media, cultural studies and the cultural materialist approach, and literature as well as Sen's works in welfare economics, social choice theory, economic growth, economic development and social topics helped the modern man tremendously in his understanding of the contemporary society....