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Let’s Analyze Popular Culture and Media using Critical Lenses

Let’s Analyze Popular Culture and Media using Critical Lenses.

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Let’s Analyze Popular Culture and Media using Critical Lenses

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  1. Let’s Analyze Popular Culture and Media using Critical Lenses

  2. “The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.“ - Theodore H. White (English Journalist, Historian & Novelist 1915-1986).

  3. The Importance of Viewing our World through Critical Lenses “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald The main reason for studying theory at the same time as literature is that it forces you to deal consciously with the problem of ideologies...There are many truths and the one you will find depends partly on the ideology you start with. [Studying theory] means you can take your own part in the struggles for power between different ideologies. It helps you to discover elements of your own ideology, and understand why you hold certain values unconsciously. It means no authority can impose a truth on you in a dogmatic way--and if some authority does try, you can challenge that truth in a powerful way, by asking what ideology it is based on... Theory is subversive because it puts authority in question. - Bonnycastle, In Search of Authority, p. 34

  4. Instructions • Interpret each media text/image using the assigned critical lens. • On a piece of paper, write down your analysis • After you’ve written your interpretation, orally share and discuss your analysis with a partner (Think-Pair-Share) • Once we’ve viewed each media source, we will discuss and analyze each image/text as a class. REMEMBER: This is NOT subjective! Do not interpret each source using your own opinions/values!

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