This generation faces a world uncertain and terrifying. It never knew a world without the internet. At all times a screen dominated entertainment. This generation will be the one to solve the problems of its ancestors, if only out of necessity. The key to the thoughts of this generation hide inside the simplest things, entertainment. Popular culture refers to mediums of entertainment that are widely accepted and accessed while society’s values refers to the collective ideas and thought processes in one society at one time. Popular culture projects a perfect reflection of society 's values, forging this reflection through a two-fold method. It alters the social values of the society it interacts with and society 's values shape the popular
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Multiple case studies of such cultural shifts occurring exists, most notably the adaptations of Godzilla and the expected entertainment sources of all ages. Staples enlightened the transformation of Godzilla from Japan to America when he explained “Dialogue that dealt with human suffering, the morality of all out war - and the temptation to play God with weapons of mass destruction - was left on the American cutting room floor” (724). To adapt to different societies, whose different experiences cause them to view these issues on very different terms, the original items needed to be edited and changed to fall within existing social acceptance. McCloud approached the issue on a much larger scale, the common social expectation that as age increases picture contents in books must decrease (740). The societal values constrict the accepted popular culture for different ages, forcing popular culture as expressed through picture books to address children and novels to address adults. Whether values advise culture to change message for societies or medium for adult, deviation from the accepted rules is often niche and unexpected, failing to become popular culture. With changing social values has come changing popular culture. Highschool movies have evolved from revolting against adult authority to struggling in the self imposed teenage social system as adult authority figures have lost power and social structures became more dangerous (Denby 711). Over time, societal values on the true threat to teenage life have changed, and the plots of highschool movies have changed with them. For the same reason that a film on a repressive teachers would struggle currently to reach widespread popularity, a film on strict school cliques would fail in 1957. Without the preexisting starting point established by social values, culture lacks the ability to spread to
Multiple case studies of such cultural shifts occurring exists, most notably the adaptations of Godzilla and the expected entertainment sources of all ages. Staples enlightened the transformation of Godzilla from Japan to America when he explained “Dialogue that dealt with human suffering, the morality of all out war - and the temptation to play God with weapons of mass destruction - was left on the American cutting room floor” (724). To adapt to different societies, whose different experiences cause them to view these issues on very different terms, the original items needed to be edited and changed to fall within existing social acceptance. McCloud approached the issue on a much larger scale, the common social expectation that as age increases picture contents in books must decrease (740). The societal values constrict the accepted popular culture for different ages, forcing popular culture as expressed through picture books to address children and novels to address adults. Whether values advise culture to change message for societies or medium for adult, deviation from the accepted rules is often niche and unexpected, failing to become popular culture. With changing social values has come changing popular culture. Highschool movies have evolved from revolting against adult authority to struggling in the self imposed teenage social system as adult authority figures have lost power and social structures became more dangerous (Denby 711). Over time, societal values on the true threat to teenage life have changed, and the plots of highschool movies have changed with them. For the same reason that a film on a repressive teachers would struggle currently to reach widespread popularity, a film on strict school cliques would fail in 1957. Without the preexisting starting point established by social values, culture lacks the ability to spread to