Does anyone know of
work being done to analyze emergences/passings/dominance of various genres in
media/"pop culture" (content, scope, impacts, sponsors, target demographics,
revenues, linkages, methods of competition etc) and the shifting SSA and
SSA requirements of Monopoly Capitalism/Imperialism?
For example, I find
this "criminal forensics genre" interesting. Starting with "Quincy" in the
early 1980s and up to the present CSI, CSI Miami, Cold Case, Crossing Jordan,
Law and Order Criminal Intent, NCIS, etc we see the message of the
omnipotence and omniscience of "bourgeois science" in the hands of the bourgeois
state. One little hair, twenty years later, can get you busted for a crime
committed twenty years prior--or released from prison for a crime you did not
commit. Just the "facts" and the "science" will ultimately drive the law and
justice system and will ultimately win out with sufficient patience and faith in
the system--the system can and will work. Those in the system are
professionals driven by curiosity, a passion for justice and superb technical
skills using state-of-the-art technology. These shows compete against each other
and for expanded audiences by getting more and more graphic in the gruesome
details of autopsies and forensics and by linking actual cases in the news
with story lines (Quincy never showed an actual body being cut open, now these
shows go in exquisite graphic detail). And for those who dare to commit
crimes--or oppose the system--omnipotent and omniscient technology in the hands
of the bourgeois state (represented by nice guys and women who are just like us
with all their own peculiarities and vulnerabilities).
In the case of the
"Reality shows", they are relatively cheap to produce, focus on trappings of
wealth (temporary) like being set in exotic locales and big mansions, and of
course utilize, celebrate, preach, reward and reinforce: rat-race
individualism, greed, selfishness, intrigue, betrayal, egoism, narcissism,
racism, sexism, homophobia, social darwinism, hard-body youth, phony patriotism,
Machiavellianism, cut-throat competition, situational ethics, get-rich-quick,
fear, national chauvinism, "civilization" versus "primitivism", crass
materialism, predatory calculations of cost/benefit, etc
etc.
Thanks,
Jim
C.
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