I found the concept of cultural criticism interesting because it was not what I expected it to be. In the first paragraph, it asked us to think of culture, and everything they listed was what I considered culture. When I knew I would be reading a cultural criticism, I expected a formal type of culture to be studied instead of "the practice of everyday life" (411). I also did not know there was a term for comparing and contrasting classic books with current movie or comic adaptations. When I really thought about it, I realized cultural criticisms is less about a certain genre of art in a certain time period and more about human behavior and reactions to a certain work. As Johnson said, "Subjectivities (are) produced, not given, and are... ocjects of inquiry (of) social practices" (415).
I believe cultural criticism is my favorite type of criticism we have studied. I like the idea that perceptions of a story can change and develop over time. Of course, writers do not always think about how readers hundreds of years later will read their novels. Nonetheless, I find it interesting how time can change the cultural perspective of a novel.
I agree that culture is affected by time, and that it affects time as well. H.P. Lovecraft's stories were mostly sold to magazines to be read along with other horror stories. Yet, today his works are found in many things such as movies, games, and art.
ReplyDeleteI also wrote about how people's different perceptions and opinions about certain things can be different from the beginning, but once they both come together and focus on what the author was truly trying to say, then that's when the differences begin to stop.
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