Considering Cultural Norms As Portrayed in Films
Happy first weeks of the semester! I hope you are all doing well, staying warm, and drinking lots of tea (or whatever you prefer to eat/drink to be cozy). Recently, I have been thinking about how art reflects cultural values, and how the audience is affected by these values whether they are aware of it or not. This is true of almost any work of art: even when people state that a piece of art “reflects a universal truth,” there…