2. ENEZETA presents

3. What does cultural studies do?

4. Like many other disciplines, Cultural Studies studies texts. However, its approach to texts is different.

5. The cultural studies’ approach to texts is not concerned with their formal or aesthetic features, but rather with The cultural studies’ approach to culture is not based on ‘textualism’‘contextualism’” “the way in which cultural texts emerge from, and play a role in, the changing historical, political and social context.” Saukko, p.99 but

6. What are texts? “...it is an axiom of cultural studies that a text is anything that generates meaning through signifying practices. Hence, dress, television programmes, images, sporting events, pop stars, etc., can all be read as texts.” Barker, p. 490

7. so, texts can be: literature music video film advertisin g images fashion sports media television art public spaces

8. context But we must never forget their

9. context either a political economic social and/or cultural

10. lived experience is also important for cultural studies

11. When people interact with texts, they create meaning, they make sense of the world, they give shape to their experience and, thus, they anchor themselves within a culture.

12. texts context lived experience cultural studies Cultural Studies takes these three elements:..and uses them to explain...

13. How in the process meaning is constructed and passed around. How culture is constantly worked and reworked on by its users. How and why people use these texts in their everyday life.

14. consider the following cultural texts using a cultural studies approach Hells AngelsPunk Vegetarianism Beatnik Manifesto Irish Gypsy WeddingsEnglish Mods Skin Bleaching Palestinian Female Rappers Malls

15. References/credits Barker, Chris. Cultural Studies. 3rd Edition. Sukko, Paula. Doing Research in Cultural Studies. An Introduction to Classical and New Methodological Approaches Images: Japanese Lolitas, Martha Moreno; Gypsy Bride, Victor de Jesus; 50s housewife, www.daretowearday.org; Rita Hayworth, Ned Scott (?)www.daretowearday.org; Rita Music: Flutey Funk. Kevin McLeod. http://incompetech.comhttp://incompetech.com Presentation by Nahirana Zambrano Cultura y Sociedad_Inglés English Department School of Modern Languages University of Los Andes, Venezuela