A nostalgic view of popular culture reduces the masses to dupes manipulated by commercialization

Evidence

The object of critique here (as it was for Thompson, Stedman Jones, and Samuel) is the kind of nostalgic perspective that focuses principally on celebrating the supposedly autonomous popular cultures of earlier ages. Those (putatively) pure and authentic popular cultures are often then presumed to have been overwhelmed by the power of the industrialized cultural industries that emerged at the end of the nineteenth century. The people then come to be seen simply as cultural dupes, manipulated into a state of false consciousness by the debased capitalistic forms of commercial culture. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 962

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘nostalgic perspective’ on popular culture that Hall’s cultural-studies approach rejects.
• XREF: Frames the critique that Hall’s concept of popular culture as contested site (hegemony) will overturn; connects to Gramscian hegemony theory in Hall’s corpus. — connects to: Ironized nostalgia merchandise functions as unconscious crowd control — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1844; Popular culture siphons youthful rebellion into corporate profit — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 166; Commercial culture shapes perceptions without simply duping an audience — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1006 (+7 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Ironized nostalgia merchandise functions as unconscious crowd control — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1844; Popular culture siphons youthful rebellion into corporate profit — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 166; Commercial culture shapes perceptions without simply duping an audience — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1006 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Commercial culture shapes perceptions without simply duping an audience #contradicts (0.92) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1006