Cultural Studies and the Academy 1. Cultural studies in the academies of the advanced capitalist countries has transformed the object of studies in the humanities. In particular‚ in English departments‚ cultural studies has challenged the predominance of the governing categories of literary studies (the "canon‚" the homogeneous "period‚" the formal properties of genre‚ the literary object as autonomous and self-contained) in the interest of producing "readings" of all texts of culture and
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BY: 1. TSANIYATUL HALIYAH (121012104) 2. MUKHAMMAD ABDI (121012105) 3. MOH. ARIEF RADITYA PUTRA (121012130) English Department Faculty of Humanities Universitas Airlangga 2013 Introduction Nowadays‚ our life provides with all things that easily access in many ways‚ we can take from television‚ film‚ radio‚ newspapers and the internet. Those lists can be categorized into media tools‚ which useful to communicate messages to audiences in the world
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certain topics. Now many tend to look to the Internet for their sources of academic information. In the world of postmodernism‚ or as scholars define‚ mixing generations by recycling old media in new ways‚ the internet and emerging technology enables accessing information much easier‚ but it takes away from face to face communication. This newly defined technology or postmodernism is cheapening forms of public life such as email‚ libraries‚ and public communication. But‚ when looking at pop culture
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fascinating to explore. Through visual communication and literary methods‚ they have taken these ideas related to the exploration of identity‚ history‚ and culture and found new ways to represent this way of analytical thinking…” (Fischer 30). Postmodernism is a typical style for‚ “writers of a humanism that felt profoundly threatened.” (Bradbury 766). Westerfield shows a trend towards postproduction when he prompts his reader to think by allowing them to move past the dialogue he had given to his
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Do you Choose your Identity or is it Chosen for you? Can people choose their identity and if so how much of our identity do we choose? For the aspects we don’t choose how did they come to form part of our identity? How much of our identity is a non-changeable permanent part of ourselves‚ and how much has been cast over us like a cloak via external influences including family of origin‚ friends‚ teachers‚ the media and social structures? We will explore these questions using several theories and
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Postmodern literature has its many spokesmen. Many would agree that Kazuo Ishiguro is not the most typical representative of this somewhat anarchistic literary and social movement‚ but he is certainly one of its most subtle and valuable artists. He uses the principles of post modernistic writing in a very meaningful way‚ and only after a thorough analysis can one fully appreciate all carefully constructed and presented elements trough which he successfully delivers his story. Remains of the day‚
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Clegg‚ S. (1990). Modern organisations. London: Sage. Cooper‚ R. & Burrell‚ G. (1988). Modernism‚ postmodernism and organizational analysis: An introduction. Organization Studies‚ 9(1)‚ 91–112. Drucker‚ P. (1994). The knowledge society. Atlantic Monthly‚ 274‚ 53–80. Edgar‚ D. et al. (1993). Introduction to Australian society (2nd ed.). NY: Prentice Hall. Hassard‚ J. & Parker‚ M. (1994). Postmodernism and organizations. London: Sage. Lyotard‚ J.F. (1984). The postmodern condition: A report on knowledge
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Madonna-jelenség és a sztárság konstituálódása a posztmodern médiában‚17-33 available at: http://ww.mediakutato.hu/cikk/2009_01_tavasz/02_madonna-jelenség_es_sztarsag access: 03/09/2013 Kaplan‚ E. Ann. 1987. Rocking Around the Clock: Music Television‚ Postmodernism‚ and Consumer Culture. New York: Methuen Kellner‚ Douglas. 1995. Media Culture‚ New York and London: Routledge “Madonna on Religion” YouTube‚ interview‚ 2006. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkDvFA6mVWs Access :28/04/14 “Madonna speaks
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Analyse how one film demonstrates features which can be considered as post-modern. Discuss with reference to concepts such as: pastiche‚ irony‚ fragmentation and parody. Film within the post-modern genre simply illustrates the ideas of postmodernism through expressive art. Postmodern can be defined as a “genre of art and literature… in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism” In this essay I will be outlining the key concepts as well as characteristics that can be found
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decades we have been witnessing a so called “linguistic turn” in social sciences which is inspired by postmodernism. As Spector-Mersel (2010) notes‚ the narrative‚ borrowed from humanities‚ especially from literary scholarship‚ penetrates many different social disciplines: psychology‚ anthropology‚ sociology‚ sociolinguistics. Acknowledging all difficulties to narrow down the term “postmodernism”‚ one should recognize the key figures of linguistic turn‚ such as J. F. Lyotard‚ F. Lacane‚ M. Foucault
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