Archive for September 24th, 2009

"High" culture meets "low" culture

We here at Movie-Thoughts.com try to offer the most unprejudiced movie criticism available, meaning why try to be as descriptive as possible and as evaluative as little as possible. To elaborate on our chosen critical philosophy in order to help you the readers understand better how we think, we are providing a quick glance at and explanation of what is called Cultural Criticism (which is directly connected to the field of Cultural Studies).

Cultural criticism aims to assess elements of culture (in our case films) in a sort of anthropological way, trying to figure out how a work emerges from and competes with other works, sometimes from other facets, within our general culture. The goal is to understand the social contexts and conditions in which a work was produced, disseminated, read, viewed, and used. Read the rest of this entry »