Thinking Activity on Five types of Cultural Studies

FIVE TYPES OF CULTURAL STUDIES 

Hello readers !

In this thinking activity, i have supposed to write a paragraph on:

1.Your understanding of British Cultural Materialism,in your own Words.

2.What is contribution of Michel Foucault in New Historicism?

3.How can New Historicists help in answering the question raised against Laputa episode in Gulliver's Travels?

4.Examplify four types of analyses of popular culture.Apply it on popular artefacts.

5.Difference between modernism and postmodernism.If possible,give example also.

•  British Culture Materialism

         Cultural studies is referred to as " cultural materialism" in Britain, and it has a long tradition. In the later nineteenth century Mattew Arnold sought to redefine the "givens" of British Culture. To appreciate the importance of this revision of "culture" we must situate it within the controlling myth of social and political reality of the British Empire upon which the sun never set.Cultural materialism began in earnest in the 1950s with the work of F.R.Leavis. there is also improve the sensibilities of a wider range of readers than just the elite.

Althusser insisted that ideology was ultimately in control of the people.

Walter Benjamin attacked fascism by quetioning the value of what he called the "aura' of culture.

Lukacs developed what he called a "reflection theory"

• New Historicism 

        Michael Warner phrases new historicism's motto as, "The text is historical' and history is textual" New historicism concern itself with extraliterary matter- letterds, dairies, films, paintings, medical,treatises-looking to reveal opposing historical tensions in a text.New historians see such cross-culture phenomena as texts in themeselves. Bruce connects Gulliver's anxious fixation on the female body to the anxieties of his age involving the rise of science and the changing role of women.

• Four types of popular culture 

     There are four main types of popular culture analyses:

1. production analyses
2. textual analysis
3. audience analysis
4. historical analysis

   these approaches view culture as a narrative or story-telling process in which particular texts or cultural artifacts consciously or unconsciously link themselves to larger stories at play in the society.

• Difference between modernism and postmodernism     

 Postcolonialism refers to a historical phase undergone by Third World countries after the decline of colonialism: for example, when countries in Asia, Africa, Latin, America, and the Caribbean separated from the European empires and were left to rebuild themselves.
  Many Third World Writers focus on both colonialism and the changes created in a postcolonial culture.