1. Name - Khalani Shabana. M
Roll no : 30
Paper no-8
Year -2013&2014
Sem-2
M.K.B.University.Bhavnagar
English Department
Submit by – Dr. D.P.Barad
Topic – Limitation of cultural studies
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4. -> The weaknesses of cultural studies lie in its very
strengths , particularly upon diversity of approach
and subject matter .
-> Cultural studies time seem merely
and intellectual .
-> Culture means how culture have interacted .
-> Cultural knowledge of the “ deep play “ of
meanings or “ thick description “ that
ethnographer Clifford Geerez identified in his
studies of the Balinese .
5. -> Devid Richter describes cultural
studies as “ about whatever is
happening at the movement ,
about body of text created in the
past ”
-> ‘Happening’ , topics , generally
speaking , is the mass media , post
modern culture , dominate culture
, lives , in habitants or topics .
6. -> Hamlet or Huckleberry Finn were
written they were not intended for
elite discussions in English class room
but popular consumption .
-> Marxist TERRY Eagleton has written
the current “ crisis “ in the
humanities can be seen as a failure of
humanities “ body of discourses “
about imperishable value .S
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8. Ideological state apparatus > TV Soap Operas,
Ads, popular movies
Khans > their movies, marriages with hindu
women, styamev jayate (all about India’s dark
side)
Awards to the books on downside of Indian
culture > Adiga’s White Tiger, Wendy Doniger’s
Hindus , etc .
9. At regular interval TV news channels (sponsored by
MNCs) will do sting operations to unearth sexual
perversion in Hindu sects > swamis, sadhvi’s caught
etc
Study of Culture with deconstructive angle > doubting
self integrity > what maccaulay cannot do, new
American edu system’s project would be able to do so
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First produce cheap cultural artefacts > then inspire
people for serious study > production > marketing (so
MBAs will be in demand) > consumption >
authenticate by doing academic research.
Articles – JSTOR – Warner and Siskin: Stopping CS
