Inter‐Asian banality and education

Morris, Meaghan

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“…Perhaps not quite at the same scale, people doing reader-response studies were challenged about their uptake of the text-reader metaphor and its clear focus on interpretative activity as engaging in work that was too benign, or that was re-packaging gratifications research (Katz et al, 1973), that rapidly accumulating evidence of diversity and difference in interpretations was not really taking theory forward (e.g. Morris, 1988), that audience research in celebrating interpretative activity was celebrating limitless polysemy to the extent of ignoring textual power (e.g. Condit, 1989), that this wave, phrased as the 'new revisionism' by Curran (1990), was merely rediscovering things discovered earlier, that audience research tends to use concepts such as meaning and sense-making often without thinking about what is exactly meant by these terms (Dahlgren, 1998), or that this all neglected real issues of power (Corner, 1991).…”

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Audiences: a decade of transformations – reflections from the CEDAR network on emerging directions in audience analysis

Das

2017

Media, Culture & Society

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In this essay, I examine the 10 years between 2004 and 2014 as a transformative, if uncertain, decade for audience analysis, faced with rapidly fragmenting media environments. Next, reflecting on the research done by a 14 country network I direct – Consortium on Emerging Directions in Audience Research (CEDAR), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, United Kingdom – I examine the features of this decade of transformation, paying attention to the intellectual markers that punctuate this decade and make it stand out in the history of audience studies. I focus on four pivotal axes of transformations which emerge out of the analysis conducted by the CEDAR network and argue that these four represent significant ways in which audience analysis has lived through an uncertain but exciting decade. These axes are audiences’ changing coping strategies with hyper-connected and intrusive media, audience interruptions of media content flows, the co-option of audience labour, and the micro–macro politics of audience action. I conclude by locating this transformative decade 2004–2014 against a longer backdrop of uncertain moments and periods of flux in the field, arguing, that not unlike those points in time, now too, audience analysis has reached a newer, more unknown, but very significant phase.

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Audiences: a decade of transformations – reflections from the CEDAR network on emerging directions in audience analysis

Das

2017

Media, Culture & Society

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“…In May 2010 the journal Inter-Asia Cultural Studies launched a special issue commemorating its 10th anniversary. For Meaghan Morris (2010) it is not the journal’s achievements as a peer-reviewed publication that impress her most. Rather, she describes in detail the broad scope and multiple fronts and levels that the movement has covered over the decade, involving many people and institutions across Asia, compelling anyone seriously interested in cultural studies, Asian studies and the intimacies between them to take a closer look (see also Chen, 2010b).…”

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The intimacies of cultural studies and area studies: The case of Southeast Asia

Heryanto

2013

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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References to area studies occasionally appear in cultural studies discourses, and vice versa, but most of them consist of terse comments made in passing. This article attempts a more substantive enquiry into a possible convergence of cultural and area studies, with specific reference to Southeast Asia. It argues that one promising scenario for studies of the region will take the form of a cultural studies, with the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies project as one model. The issue will be examined in the contexts of two related developments: the initial attempts to build locally based studies about the region, and the internationalisation of cultural studies.

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“…Here, Meaghan Morris's "Banality in Cultural Studies"[11] can be a significant reference for more analysis of the banality of these Hollywood movies in the sense that they forge a reality and amplify it to produce nonexistent phobias in the mind of Western audiences. This would justify the alleged western superiority over the so-called "abusers of women," the Arabs.…”

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Revisiting Binarism: Hollywood’s Representation of Arabs

Chahdi

2018

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This article throws into relief the tropes by which Hollywood has come to churn out identical Arabs bent on destruction, yet ones that need to be salvaged. However, the salvation process is never complete(d) because the Arabs are not worthy of redemption, which sinks them further into the abyss of darkness. The representation of Arabs in Hollywood movies mostly aims at disseminating a stereotypical image that demeaninglyhomogenizestheir cultures and identities. Hollywood here participates in a process of imperial hegemony. The repetition in producing suchimagined cultureof Arabs and Muslims is seen as a hegemonic act of naturalizing orientalist ideologies that tend to over-idealize the Western culture and relegate the Eastern counterpart. In this light, this article attempts to deconstruct the visual representations (ideologies) produced to malign and vilify Arabs in Hollywood movies. Such movies are always premised upon a structure of binary oppositions that establish a motion picture of a civilized center dominating the margins, the so-called uncivilized subjects.

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Inter‐Asian banality and education

Cited by 13 publications

References 3 publications

Audiences: a decade of transformations – reflections from the CEDAR network on emerging directions in audience analysis

Audiences: a decade of transformations – reflections from the CEDAR network on emerging directions in audience analysis

The intimacies of cultural studies and area studies: The case of Southeast Asia

Revisiting Binarism: Hollywood’s Representation of Arabs

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