Popular culture always contains both containment and resistance simultaneously
Evidence
In the study of popular culture, we should always start here: with the double-stake in popular culture, the double movement of containment and resistance, which is always inevitably inside it. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 994
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Defines Hall’s ‘double-stake’ — that every popular cultural form holds containment and resistance at once.
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