Madonna Research Paper
Madonna
Description * highly influential fashion and pop culture icon * the center of a storm of controversy * the best-selling and most discussed female singer in popular music * a superstar of pop culture * adored and abhorred by audiences, critics, and academics (some celebrate her as a subversive cultural revolutionary, others attack her politically as anti-cultural conservative, or as irredeemably trashy and vulgar.)
I shall argue with Madonna is a genuine, site of contradiction 'that must be' articulated and appraised to adequately interpret her images and works, and their effects.
* Madonna's image and reception highlight the social constructedness of identify, fashion, and sexuality. * encourages …show more content…
A capitalist market dictated that only certain classes could afford the most expensive attire, which signified social privilege and power * Identity in traditional societies: fixed by birth, and the available repertoire of roles was tightly constricted to traditional social functions. * Gender roles: especially rigid, while work and status were tightly circumscribed by established social code and an obdurate system of status ascription
* Modern societies: eliminated rigid codes of dress and cosmetics, and beginning around 1700 changing fashions of apparel and appearance began proliferating. * In the aftermath of the French Revolution fashion: anyone who could afford certain clothes and makeup could wear and display what they wished. (Previously, sumptuary laws forbad members of certain classes from dressing and appearing like the ruling elites.)
* Modernity offered new possibilities for constructing personal identities. * Modern societies: possible for individuals to produce within certain limits — 'their own identities and experience identity crises. Already in the eighteenth century,’ the philosopher David …show more content…
* Yet boundary deconstruction, irony, and camp are arguably modernist strategies, and Madonna is constantly deploying self-consciously modernist strategies, presenting her work as serious and transgressive art. * * In the 1990 Nightline interview and the 1991 film Truth and Dare, Madonna describes her work as "artistic," claiming that she refuses to compromise her artistic integrity. She also wants to continue "pushing buttons," being "political," going beyond established boundaries, and creating new and innovative works of art—all self-consciously modernist aesthetic values and goals.
* Although some have attacked Madonna as being antifeminist and a disgrace to women, others have lauded her as the true feminist for our times and as a role model for young women. Camille Paglia, for instance, has celebrated Madonna as "a true feminist," and a role model of the strong, independent and successful woman, who successfully affirms her own power and sexuality and defies conventional,
Description * highly influential fashion and pop culture icon * the center of a storm of controversy * the best-selling and most discussed female singer in popular music * a superstar of pop culture * adored and abhorred by audiences, critics, and academics (some celebrate her as a subversive cultural revolutionary, others attack her politically as anti-cultural conservative, or as irredeemably trashy and vulgar.)
I shall argue with Madonna is a genuine, site of contradiction 'that must be' articulated and appraised to adequately interpret her images and works, and their effects.
* Madonna's image and reception highlight the social constructedness of identify, fashion, and sexuality. * encourages …show more content…
A capitalist market dictated that only certain classes could afford the most expensive attire, which signified social privilege and power * Identity in traditional societies: fixed by birth, and the available repertoire of roles was tightly constricted to traditional social functions. * Gender roles: especially rigid, while work and status were tightly circumscribed by established social code and an obdurate system of status ascription
* Modern societies: eliminated rigid codes of dress and cosmetics, and beginning around 1700 changing fashions of apparel and appearance began proliferating. * In the aftermath of the French Revolution fashion: anyone who could afford certain clothes and makeup could wear and display what they wished. (Previously, sumptuary laws forbad members of certain classes from dressing and appearing like the ruling elites.)
* Modernity offered new possibilities for constructing personal identities. * Modern societies: possible for individuals to produce within certain limits — 'their own identities and experience identity crises. Already in the eighteenth century,’ the philosopher David …show more content…
* Yet boundary deconstruction, irony, and camp are arguably modernist strategies, and Madonna is constantly deploying self-consciously modernist strategies, presenting her work as serious and transgressive art. * * In the 1990 Nightline interview and the 1991 film Truth and Dare, Madonna describes her work as "artistic," claiming that she refuses to compromise her artistic integrity. She also wants to continue "pushing buttons," being "political," going beyond established boundaries, and creating new and innovative works of art—all self-consciously modernist aesthetic values and goals.
* Although some have attacked Madonna as being antifeminist and a disgrace to women, others have lauded her as the true feminist for our times and as a role model for young women. Camille Paglia, for instance, has celebrated Madonna as "a true feminist," and a role model of the strong, independent and successful woman, who successfully affirms her own power and sexuality and defies conventional,