Hegemony And Graffiti
‘Popular culture is an arena of consent and resistance. It is partly where hegemony arises and where it is secured.'
(Stuart Hall, Notes on Deconstructing the Popular)
Popular culture is widely recognised as the ‘people's culture', in that it refers to the forms of culture e.g. film, television, that broadly appeal to the widest range of people. Ruling classes capitalise on this fact by filtering certain forms of popular culture into the dominant ideology, so long as they are not overtly counter-hegemonic, to generate the impression of a collaborative
society. This, in turn will secure their hegemony. Their aim is to use the semiotics in their chosen forms of popular culture to display their ideology and manipulate the audience into accepting it.
The ideology is never simply in the message, but in the position......
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