Japanese popular culture

rich leisure life, full of the pleasures of life catalyst, entertainment. Popular culture more and more replace classical culture. Television as entertainment media, it is our cultural transformation of the big stage entertainment. Resulting in a diverse values coexist and collide, cultivate people 's awareness of the…

capitalized on, and that is developing children’s understanding about cultures of particular groups and reinforcing that idea with supporting content in media. Giroux and Simon (1989) describe this by saying that ideology is a pedagogical process. “The relationships that subordinate groups enter into with respect to…

influence how we think about gender. Today, two Barbie’s are being sold every 30 seconds worldwide and instead of comforting children to fit into the societal norm, society should be educating these children about the difference between gender and sex, culture and ethnicity, genetics and biology, puberty etc. which are all subjects that will influence their minds in a positive way. But in order to understand how Ruth Handler herself came up with the ‘ideal’ Barbie look, we must first look at…

Stigma: Comic Books There is no question that the nerd ethos is active as another summer approaches presenting a plethora of superhero movies. But Hollywood supremacy aside, there is still a stigma involved in this culture. I am going to discredit some of the stereotypes. The stigma I address of is what individuals normally think of as the “nerd of comic books”. You know the type: kind of an underdog, a Star Wars or comic book fanatic, unaware of the superior world around them. Superhero movies…

In Emerson's essay, Self- Reliance, he describes how people these days can have their own integrity, but because of the multiple differences and beliefs, there is a less guarantee that they are truly themselves. Society today have what is called a trend when a celebrity or a famous figure starts a trend, everyone else wants to be involved in the trend. In a magazine called, Viewpoint: Did our brains evolve to foolishly follow celebrities?, indicates that “Fame is a powerful cultural magnet. As…

zombie metaphor creates an intellectual space unencumbered by preexisting political biases” (3). As a fictional construct in film and literature, any political assumptions on acceptable foreign policy strategies against a zombie outbreak… In popular culture, zombies are used to create a fictional lens in order to see the real problems of world. In Max Brooks’s novel World War Z, one is able to make sense of the anxieties of living in late-modern capitalist societies because of the focus on the…

point in time refers to a popular culture (Little, 2013). Pop culture encompasses public’s aspects of social life, as what Brummett describes in Rhetorical Dimensions of Popular Culture. People’s interactions in their day to day activities; fashion trends, language use, and even the food they eat define popular culture. Mass media often plays an important way of popular culture’s expression and diffusion today. From yourdictionary.com, these are some examples of popular culture: • The…

In pop culture, the sexuality of women are often depicted as a binary: either as a slut or a whore, or pure and innocent. Adelina Anthony’s and Margaret Cho’s performances challenge these representations with their comedic performances and being open with their sexuality. They disidentify with hegemonic cultural representations by working with and against dominant representations such as sexism and classism. They use humor such as sarcasm to make people see how absurd about people’s…

Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the 1950’s. Pop art came out in Britain and The United States culture. The origin of the name “Pop art” is unknown but it’s often credited to a British art critic named “Lawrence Alloway”. In Lawrence Alloway’s essay titled “The Arts and Mass Media”, even though he would not exactly use the words “Pop” and “Art”, he was one of the high level critics to approve Pop Art as a legitimate art form. Characterized by bold, simple and everyday imagery and…

the word. The Webster dictionary defines the word as “a person who is unusually aware of and interested in new and unconventional patterns (as in jazz or fashion).” However, urban dictionary says that hipsters “value independent thinking, counter-culture, progressive politics, an appreciation of art and indie-rock, creativity, intelligence, and witty banter.” I was shocked to see that this was the definition used because I have grown up thinking of hipsters as people that are annoying and…