Hell in popular culture

It is often the case that people will group together based on similar interests, styles, and personalities to form smaller cultures within the vastness of mainstream society. In a culture as diverse as America, there are many definitive groups which may be deemed subcultures, but perhaps the most interesting groups are those who find themselves at the fringes of what may be defined as a subculture. So, what exactly outlines the requirements that makes a group of people to be called a subculture?…

time Pop Art was emerging in America, a war-consumed society was transitioning into a mass cultural embrace of media and art. Pop Art was the art of popular culture. It was the visual art movement that characterized a sense of optimism during the post war consumer boom of the 1960's. It coincided with the globalization of pop music and youth culture. Pop Art was young and fun and hostile to the artistic establishment.…

of being tolerable, and sometimes leave us on the edge. So the question isn’t that we get lonely, but why we do. Let's look through a few lenses to understand the why behind this feeling so many of us put forth an effort to avoid. Lens one: Popular culture is become more and more influence for what I have observed in the world in the time period that we are currently in. There are more people in the world now then there were five…

of comic book character. One thing comic book grammar that I would use to determine the significance of these characters when circulated through different mediums would be visual metaphor, which Duncan defines in Power of Comics: History, Form and Culture as, “a picture of one thing to evoke the meaning of something else.” (Duncan, 2015) My argument in this area of rhetoric would be while comics do have powerful and meaningful text often. So, can the deeper metaphors that comic book literature…

Beyonce’s impact on the communication of popular culture and identity. Those two perspectives that we learned in class are that popular culture is a site of hegemonic struggle and wildly favored by population. These two perspectives help to give a better understanding of how to examine both the account of Beyonce’s performance, as well as the performance itself. The first perspective, a site of hegemonic struggle, is meaning that the creator of this culture is a position of authority. While…

West Hollywood Carnaval 1. Description Monday October 31, 2016, Halloween night, my friend and I decided to attend West Hollywood Carnaval. Before getting there, we had a hard time looking for parking for we didn’t know it’s going to be that popular. It took us about two hours to find parking which is also very far from the event. We walked for 30 minutes just to get to the location. It’s both our first time. The event takes place in the streets of Santa Monica Boulevard between N Doheny Drive…

Pole sitting, sitting atop a flagpole, was one of the most popular fads during the twenties. “The most famous Jazz Age flagpole sitter was Alvin ‘Shipwreck’ Kelly, a professional stuntman who ignited this national craze in 1924 when he spent thirteen hours and thirteen minutes atop a flagpole to attract crowds to…

“One dance” has received many awards this summer, and Billboard, a popular charting company has even named it the song of the summer. It has been number one on the chart for a consecutive 14 weeks. It keeps at No. 2 on the overall Streaming Songs chart (after leading the list two weeks ago) with 32.8 million U.S. streams (Trust 2016). This hit summer song was written by Drake, a Canadian rapper who had become extremely popular in the hip hop but also pop genre. He was…

To study popular culture is to challenge the assumption that high culture carries worth, and low culture is the binary opposite therefore lacking in value. Popular culture, is the everyday ordinariness of life (Williams 1958: 93) and saturates everyday life. Popular culture is so widespread that its presence cannot be ignored within an academic study of humanities. The dilemmas surrounding popular culture originate from definition: in defining it with recognition to its historical subjugation to…

We as rappers must decide what 's most important / And I can 't help the poor if I 'm one of them / So I got rich and gave back, to me that 's the win-win" – Jay Z (Carter, 2003) Shawn “Jay Z” Carter is among the most recognized identities in pop culture; one of the wealthiest recording artists alive (Lynch, 2014), as well as being widely considered in the hip-hop community to be a contender for the greatest rapper of all time. However, his rags to riches life story includes a checkered past,…