Celebrities

  1) What are the significant social, cultural, and/or political-economic contexts within which Lemonade has been produced? 2) In Lemonade, what kind of story is told? How is the story told? And from whose perspective? 3) According to Edgar and Toone, how do audience members use Lemonade to plot spaces of racial pride, community and equality? Give an example to support your answer. 4) According to Edgar and Toone, what is Bourdieu’s habitus? 5) According to Edgar and Toone, what is Bourdieu’s field? 6) What is Edar and Toone’s main argument? 7) According to Edgar and Toone, how is habitus form? What is the relationship between habitus and ideology? 8) What does Bell Hooks mean by the “controversial hoodie” (pg 2)? 9) Why does Bell Hooks say that “Beyonce’s audience is the world and that world of business and money-making has no color”? Do you agree? Disagree? Why? 10) Why does Bell Hooks say that “ultimately Lemonade glamorizes a world of gendered cultural paradox and contradiction. It does not resolve” (pg. 5)? 11) Who are your favorite celebrities? Why do you think those celebrities resonate with you? 12) Who were your favorite celebrities in middle high school? Are they still your favorite celebrity? Why or why not? 13) What role do you think celebrities play in American culture? 14) What role does social media play in extending the reach of celebrities in American contemporary American culture?