Thursday, 15 July 2010

Roland Barthes - Cultural Mythologies

Barthes would often interrogate pieces of cultural material to expose how society used them to assert its values upon others.
For example - Portrayal of wine in French society as a robust and healthy habit would be an ideal perception contradicted by certain realities (i.e. that wine can be unhealthy and inebriating).

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