INTRODUCTION These days the label ‘fan’ is a common colloquialism and can be referred to an enthusiast of anything, from sports, food to even fashion trends. That is to say, we use the term ‘fan’ loosely to describe our preferences towards something and anything. However, this usage is incorrect, as fans are actually specific recipients of popular culture. Fans are actually distinctive audience of various types of media, holding in-depth knowledge of the product and have continuous consumption…
is meant by high culture, low culture, and folk culture? Explain and give some example! Answer: According to Rob Kroes (1996) in the book entitled If You’ve Seen One, You’ve Seen the Mall, Europeans has the metaphors that the use to visualize America and one of those metaphors ‘represents it as a country of leveling, erosion, and shallowness’. Kroes also mentions how ‘Europeans tend to pride themselves on a firm sense of cultural hierarchy, the sense of high versus low, of the sublime versus…
In the article, Scholars Spend As Much Time With "The Love Boat" As With Shakespeare, by Robert Trussell, he argues on how the importance of popular culture is overlooked by scholars who claim it does not meet academic requirements. Trussell explains the effects of popular culture and how they change culture itself. Although it is commonly under heavy criticism from scholars who view it as trivial, he believes that popular culture should be studied in the way past culture is studied today.…
The Power of Words Language has been an important part of human evolution since its creation. In many cases, it is inferred that language contributes to the genius of the human mind. This is because language is what allows us humans to think and imagine everything in the world. Therefore, every word we say to refer to anything; is a metaphor that our mind creates to refer to things in existence. The complexity of all this is that language evolves when the meaning of words change. This can…
Avoiding popular culture can be difficult, since popular culture is ubiquitous. Popular culture is seen everywhere from billboards to computer advertisements. Popular culture is also such a large part of young American identities, since it helps teenagers express who they are more adequately. However, I did not really have the opportunity to do this because I felt as though I needed to save my money to better my life. Once I turned sixteen, I got a job because I knew I was going to have to rely…
Warhol based this portrait on a publicity still from the 1953 film Niagara. He painted the background gold before silkscreening the boldly colored face in the center, adding black to show her features. Even as Warhol canonizes Monroe, he reveals her public persona as a carefully structured illusion. For Marilyn, he…
mass-produced or low-brow culture: pop music, potboilers and page-turners, movies, comics, advertising, and radio and television.” Today, pop culture remains particularly aimed at younger people; however, popular culture may be targeted at anyone of any age group. Popular culture may influence our thoughts, likes, dislikes, behavior, and many other characteristics of an individual. First, in the article, “High-School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies,” David Denby, a staff writer and film…
Popular culture has become increasingly large with the creation of the internet and an increasing number of personal computers, so it only seems natural that pop culture would eventually be discussed in academia. Pop culture, specifically fantasy novels and movies, teach people a great deal about history, creation stories, and many other college and university focused topics. It also helps student facilitate their learning as they can discuss topics and concepts that are focused through their…
So what put the U.S in a league of its own? The world’s most sophisticated military panoply and a massive defense budget, an unmatched research and higher education establishment (ensure a future of excellence), a warrior culture and a humanitarian mission to the world. U.S twice saved Europe from itself and then saved it a third, during the cold war from the Soviet…
need to spend more money on the military until we reach this point. Now how insane that sounds is just as crazy as our current military budget is, and rising. The United States Defense department is the most over funded program in the U.S. and has risen to unprecedented rates since World War II. The only reasonable reason for a steady increasing military budget is of warring states that with unstable economies. There are no significant wars that the U.S.A is in right now, so why do we have a…