Pop Culture, Film & Society

“Another poor, massive, uneducated black teenager lumbers onto screens this month, two weeks after “Precious” and obviously timed as a pre-Thanksgiving-dinner lesson in the Golden Rule. But unlike Claireece Precious Jones, “The Blind Side’s” Michael ‘Big Mike’ Oher (Quinton Aaron) is mute, docile and ever grateful to the white folks who took him in. Directed by John Lee Hancock and based on a true story recounted in Michael Lewis’ 2006 book of the same name, Blind Side the movie peddles the most insidious kind of racism, one in which whiteys are virtuous saviors, coming to the rescue of blacks who become superfluous in narratives that are supposed to be about them.”

-Dallas Observer

“We are a global network of culture jammers and creativesworking to change the way information flows, the way corporations wield power, and the way meaning is produced in our society.”

Culture: “The best that

has been thought and

said.”

-Matthew Arnold

What is popular culture?

“…popular culture consists of those things –

products, texts, practices, and so on – that

are enjoyed by lots and lots of people;

popular culture is commercial culture;

popular culture consists of the traditional

practices and beliefs or way of life as a

specific group; and, finally the most wide

ranging definition of all, popular culture is

simply the practices of everyday life.”

What/Who defines the Popular?

What/Who defines what it’s

meaning is?