Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel课件.ppt

Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel: the Popular Arts;What Hall and Whannel are doing here is rejecting the arguments of Leavisism, and the mass culture critique, which claims that all high culture is good and that all popular culture is bad. On the contrary, they think that the most high culture is good, and some popular cuture is also good, it is a ultimately question of popular dicrimination.大众分辨力 The aim of the popular arts is to replace the misleading generalization of earlier attacks on popular culture by helping to facilitate popular discrimination within and across the range of popular culture itself.;Hall and Whannel know that the high culture is always best, and the mass culture is always predigested预先消化 (our response are predetermined rather than the result of a genuine interaction with the text and practice).意指我们的反应不是与文本或实践的真正互动中产生的，而是被文化生产者预设的 The important point about ‘predigested’is that it cuts across the commonplace distinctions. It applies to the film but not all, to some Tv but not all. It covers segments of the traditional as well as the popular culture.;Hall and Whannel reject two common teaching strategies often encountered when popular culture is introduced to the classroom. ;The second main thesis is that necessity to recognize within popular culture a distinct category they call popular art. popular art is not art that has attempted and failed to be real art, but art which operates within the confines of the popular. ;Good popular culture is able to reestablish the relationshhip between performer and audience. Popular art is essentially a conventional art which restates, in an intense form, values and attitudes already known. Such art has in common with folk art the genuine contact between audience and performer. But it differs from folk art in that it is an individualised art, the art of the known performer. ;One problem with their distinction between art and popular art is that it depends for its clarity on art as ‘surprise’. They make a furthu