Question 8: Political Economy and Cultural Studies

Cultural studies are shown in both of these films that Disney affects our culture. Disney is selling culture, they control so much of the media. In Grossberg’s article (“Cultural Studies vs. Political Economy: Is Anybody Else Bored With This Debate?”), he states, “culture matters and that it cannot simply be treated (dismissed) as the transparent…public face of dominative and manipulative capitalist…relations between people, culture and power” (Storey 635). An example of political economy is how they pay their employees. Grossberg states, “is neither stable nor close, that it is itself contested terrain…fails to take culture seriously enough…also fails to take capitalism seriously enough” (Storey 637).