Abstract

My paper is about the very idea of culture and how Raymond Williams and Stuart and Elizabeth Ewen define the culture we live in today. Raymond Williams used his personal story to try and give a sense of what culture is which gave me the idea of using "In the shadow of the Image" to try and compare the authors ideas of culture. The authors are both correct because Williams lays down the aspects of a single culture while the Ewens try and give ideas about popular culture and the effects of commercial images. Raymond Williams does not use any ideas of popular culture in his story, his story was about defining the culture he lived in and how eventually over time the new ideas around his culture affected his community and made for change. I feel between the two stories that in the end I will be able to develop my idea of culture as I know from living and dealing with commercial images.