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For example, only within the past half-decade has homosexuality been represented in television, mainly through situation comedies and soap operas (irony and parody seem initial ways to open cultural constructions for interrogations). Homosexuality has yet to be represented in advertising, education, ideologies, histories, and popular culture. If so, it is done sometimes to the point of invisibility, sometimes to the point of ridicule, and still against the dominant grain of heterosexuality. Controversial representations, such as art photographer Robert Mapplethorpe’s works that display homosexuality, are publicly condemned as pornography.

Within our everyday life, those stories that contain the crisis placed upon modern life through the constructions or the influence of the mythos should be dismantled. CULTURAL AESTHETICS IN CRISIS Aesthetics are cultural representations and forms that define love, beauty, truth, justice, and dignity. The arts have traditionally served as a major means of aesthetic expression; mediums that give shape to the shifting historical and cultural definitions of aesthetic life. Like other areas of modern life, however, cultural aesthetics are also in crisis.

Maybe history is studied or presented in a manner that never demands application of critical and contemporary theories. Aston (1995) relates how the discovery that her ancestors are female enables her to rethink that the destructive history of the human race is made by men. 16 The Dramatic Arts and Cultural Studies Where and when do religious, national, cultural, or state/provincial borders create more problems than effective solutions? Quebec, a province of Canada, talks about separation and becoming a distinct society for the French Canadian population.