Popular culture siphons youthful rebellion into corporate profit
Evidence
Hanif Kureishi’s writing exists at the intersection where the forces of youthful rebellion meet their rearticulation (and possibly neutering) in the shiny packaging of the mainstream entertainment industry. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 166
Categorization
- DEFINE: Frames ‘rearticulation (and possibly neutering)’ as a way to describe co-optation of dissent — a tool for reading how a novel’s subversion can be absorbed.
- XREF: connects to: Corporations shifted from advertising products to engineering youth culture itself; Youth revolts in style predate postwar consumer culture and carry racial politics; A nostalgic view of popular culture reduces the masses to dupes manipulated by commercialization — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 962 (+6 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Corporations shifted from advertising products to engineering youth culture itself; Youth revolts in style predate postwar consumer culture and carry racial politics; A nostalgic view of popular culture reduces the masses to dupes manipulated by commercialization — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 962 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Commercial media manufacture teenage identity and counterculture to drive consumerism
#corroborates(0.92) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 999 - Poptimism legitimized marketing and spectacle as cultural production itself.
#complicates(0.75) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 140