SF3 - Lesson: Application of Critical Lenses to Popular Culture

Application of Critical Lenses to Popular Culture

Introduction

In the last lesson, you learned about critical lenses and how they can help shape how we view a particular text. In this lesson, we will continue this exploration as you directly connect critical lenses to popular culture. We will model this type of analysis for you.

Practicing with Critical Lenses: Pop Culture

In this video presentation, we will explore how critical lenses work by analyzing a story from pop culture from many different critical lenses. Pay close attention, make sure that your volume is turned up, and prepare to complete your analysis following our study.

Let's Review

This checklist is designed to get you thinking about how a critical lens might be applied to other popular culture stories.

Take a moment to consider how a critical lens might be applied to other popular culture stories. Here are some pop culture stories to consider. On your own, practice your command of critical lenses and choose one or more of the following popular culture stories to analyze from different angles.

• Harry Potter
• Star Wars (and series/movie/episode)
• Beauty and the Beast
• A story of your choice

Reflection

The purpose of this lesson was to provide a practical application of the critical lens with a text from popular culture. Now that we have considered critical theory from an accessible vantage point, we will shift into applying these same critical lenses to a self-selected literary work in the next microlesson.

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