Cultural and Ethnic Studies

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Introduction

• Raymond Williams (1983) noted 3 definitions of
  culture.
• It is texts and practices whose functions are to
  produce, signify, or cause production.
• Going by this definition, the authors perception
  of culture.
• This is similar to what post-structuralists and
  structuralists call practices.
• Here, culture can easily be related to opera,
  fine art, novel, poetry and ballet.

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Mathew Arnold

• He argues that culture has a social function.
• It is to police the disruptive presence.
• Mass culture is feared as seen in fiction and
  the Game of Thrones Series.
• This paper will evaluate the Game of Thrones
  show.

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Game of Thrones series refers

• It refers to a film that is based on fantasy.
• Two fictional continents are depicted in the
  series.
• These are the Westeros and Essos.
• The first series depicts a struggle that is seen
  as the cold war that different noble houses fight
  over the Iron Throne that comprises of seven
  kingdoms.
• The second series depicts a nearing winter which
  is an ever-growing threat that has been
  illuminated.

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• Final chronicles illustrate the way the displaced
  dynastys exiled scion tries to recapture power.
• This film highlights different aspects including
• social hierarchy
• civil war
• crime
• religion
• sexuality
• punishment and loyalty

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Game of Thrones Series illustrates

• Illustrates the way television shows match the
  functions and descriptions of culture.
• Culture serves as an act that police the
  destructive presence.
• In the Game of Throne Series, aspects of crime,
  punishment and social hierarchy are depicted.
• Rival parties are struggling to gain the
  leadership of the kingdom.
• A crime is committed in this process.

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• Culture serves a vital role in the struggle for
  power.
• It is only the noble families that can contest
  for this throne.
• Punishment is meted on uncultivated masses for
  trying to fight this culture.
• Theory and fiction of containing the mass culture
  shows that mass culture is feared.
• Mass culture can be referred to as a culture that
  has been produced commercially.
• It is a subject of sociological inspection
  considering its insufficiency

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Mass Culture in Games of Thrones Series

• Characters that are morally ambiguous have been
  used to highlight the sexuality aspect.
• This mass culture aspect is produced
  commercially.
• It can be seen from the large fan base that the
  series have.
• This illustrates a drug-like addiction that
  people have to fiction.
• This show perpetuates a behavior that is morally
  destructive.
• This show fits in the containment ideology of the
  cold war.

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• Punishment is meted on uncultivated masses that
  try to oppose this culture.
• Moral degradation is evident in the show and this
  has been caused by mass culture.
• Characters that are morally ambiguous can make
  documenting this possible.
• This paper has shown that mass culture or popular
  culture is produced commercially and TV shows
  serve as its transmission vessels. 
• Game of Thrones Series TV show serves an example
  of television shows that do not serve the
  transmission vessels role of the mass culture.

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