What, according to Roland Barthes, is myth?
The paper is based on a reading from a section of Roland Barthes, Mythologies which I will attach below.
Here’s the instructions from assignment:
What, according to Roland Barthes, is myth? How does it function in popular, visual culture (e.g., advertising, cinema, television etc.)? How is myth a “second-order semiological system” according to Barthes? To help you develop your answers to these questions, choose a visual or auditory example that you encounter over the course of the week. This could be an advertisement, public art, a design object, a piece of technology, etc. Analyze its mythological elements. Here, you can focus on visual, narrative, auditory, musical, etc. elements; you can also focus on referential elements within the object that you are analyzing.
Your thesis/argument should emerge from your reading/interpretation of the object that you analyze. It could argue that Barthes needs to be updated to deal with a culture inundated with images and sounds. It could argue that not much has changed since 1957 in this regard. It could argue that myth are more targeted in 2023 than they were in 1957.
