Analysing Movies that Have to Do with Marxism, Panopticism...

Cultural Studies, as the name implies, is a broad and far reaching discipline which takes into account many fields of study, ideas and theories. Popular culture, a branch of cultural studies; looks into the transformation of culture as it is continuously molded through the devices of language, symbols and theories. In todays world, however, globalization has become a major concern as cultures from around the world are becoming meshed together resulting a new world order (or disorder as implied by Barker). The concerns of globalization involve capitalist influence, a rapidly growing dependence on technology, and the possibility of the world entering into a cyber-capitalist era. The ideas of importance in this essay are as follows:†¦show more content†¦The complications, however, in a profit driven society, is the fierce competition for resources and consumer investment, this could be seen as the boys bike is stolen and purchased by another boy. The class struggle between the have and the have nots is inevitable in Capitalism as some have it better than others depending on if one owns a business or is selling their labor for survival; the boy who had been working for his bike and the boy who purchased the bike is akin to the struggle between Proletariat and Bourgeoisie. The class struggle between the two boys continue until they realize that there will be no end in sight to the conflict until there is an agreement, in which they share resources (the bike) which is symbolic of how Marx predicted that Capitalism would be superseded by Socialism, as this quote from Baker implies: â€Å"However, the mechanisms of capitalism also give rise to perennial crises and will ultimately lead, or so Marx argued, to its being superseded by socialism (Baker 13).† As the two boys are beaten at the end of the movie by a group of other boys, mainly at the fault of the wealthier boy, it is symbolic of the end of Capitalism and into Socialism where the people a s a whole own property as opposed to property being private. There