Pop culture
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- pop culture
- shared knowlede and practices of a speicifc group at a specific time (politics, culture, music, sports)
- car radio
- 1930, adopted from military, made by motorola
- typographical culture
- all info comes through written word
- cultural verisimilitude
- must go with location/timing of era
- Edward Murrows
- original war newscaster "voice of american war"
- cultural template
- how we understand world based on past expereinces
- 3 part rise of studio systems
- production, distribution, exhibitation
- clothing distrinciton
- people wear clothing for different activies-distinction of work and play
- Greatest generation
- people who fought in ww2, ended communism and facism, filmed extensively
- film noir
- opposity of american dream, not a genre more a philisophy (donnie darko)
- canned food
- economy moving to excess after ww2, people in cities cant grow food
- brooklyn bridge
- 1st of its kind, reprensets expansion and urbanization, burte force and use of raw matericals, car travel increasing
- Marshall Plan
- us helps financially stablilize germany
- FCC
- created after war, people could liscense their own stations
- signifigance of suburbs
- migration of city dwellers to suburbs, cleaner, slower pace, people worked in city and lived in suburb
- structuralism
- perdictablity, how world works, relative to language and semiology-languauge stays the same
- eiffel tower
- orginially built for worlds fair, built to show off, not function, oppulance
- pseudo individiualization of pop music
- remixing of songs, covering old songs, genres-fooled by music that looks individualized
- fireside chats
- FDR's weekly radio chat, more personal, talked about world
- standardizaiton of pop music
- all music in same form, strucutre, genere, theme-trains us to believe this is what we want
- cotton clothing
- cotton gin made picking efficient, represnets high class, people have more clothes
- securing equillibrium
- movie doesnt stop with problem, need to be restored back to social norms
- commercialization
- advertising and targeting certain groups, what you need to do to sell something to a group
- coca-cola
- developed overseas plants to distribute to troops
- iconoraphic culture
- culture of picutres, globalization makes people interprest words differently so picutres are universial
- real needs
- things you need to know about but is never in the media
- atomization
- breakdown of closely knit social circles, people no longer have meaningful relationshios, left to own devices
- non-linear cinema
- doesnt follow storyline, lack of plot and creativity, middle class ideals
- commodity of fetishism
- frankfurt school, only know what culture tells us, everything is commodified, overwhelming desire for what we like not need
- disequilibrium
- crisis in plot, breakdown of social norms
- horizon of expectation
- something we expect to see relative to genre (italian mobsters)
- false need
- idea you need to do something you see in media
- Hollywood
- moved to CA for easy access to mexico, land, many landscapes, cheap labor
- verisimilitude
- same cause and effects in your life need to function in mocire, will suspend beliefs at certain time-sci fi
- gloria steinham
- editor of Ms. Magazine who realized media didnt deal with real needs
- example of market share
- putting targets next to each other so wal-mart cant move in
- keys to Marshall Plan
- if countires are fiscally stable they dont want to go to war/if europe is stable trade will continue
- gangster films
- culture realism, american dream, protecting family, illegal but not immoral
- american dream
- individuality, socio-economic mobility, failure or success based on individual
- passive consumers
- audinece becomes audience for consumptions not participations, mass cutlure consumer
- closure
- want to see closure becuase we want closure in our lives
- technological ease
- price increases as ease of use increases, TV