Popular culture studies

brought to the discussion”(Jaikaran). Cultural appropriation is the use of other cultures’ customs for one’s own purposes not belonging to that culture; often perceived as offensive. As the world changes and progresses, more acceptance of cultures unfolds. Acceptance of cultures will never fully occur if said cultures are considered separate from the rest of society. Cultural appropriation in pop culture allows for cultures to be spread and ultimately accepted by a wide variety of people by…

whilst being quite popular in both a domestic or international sense, has not had a noticeable or lasting impact on global popular culture. Throughout the course of this multi-modal presentation I will be further exploring this statement, as well as a diverse range of subtopics that will help to further expand on the reasoning and logic behind it, these subtopics being; How the Television series was received globally/how successful was it and does it classify as global popular culture and…

movies, but it is too scary for her and they leave. As they walk home through the woods, Jackson begins to sing “Thriller,” until he eventually transforms into a zombie. In the graveyard with all the other zombies, Jackson begins one of the most popular and iconic dance routines in a music video (Herbert 108). One of the major…

An additional example would be the sexual culture of this time period and region. Unlike Twain, who used racial titles to describe different areas and the culture of that region’s inhabitants. Harte, not to say was more qualified, due to the fact that he lived in this region his entire life, he could describe the sexual culture that was occurring during this time. Harte displayed this more risky culture throughout his book, Miggles (Reidhead, 352).The author of Norton Anthology American…

Say it with me… RuPaul Charles. I mean, doesn’t the name alone scream ‘ICON’? I, personally, have a heart full of emotions when I say his name. But for those of you who didn’t just then? Let me tell you why you should. RuPaul is a gay icon in the truest sense of the term. But I’m going to take it a step further and say that not only is he a gay icon, but simply, an icon. Ru has broken down walls and barriers, leaped over the kind of hurdles that’d make Jessica Ennis jealous, and has looked…

but it also has awoken many questions involving political correctness and the reflection of film in popular culture. Scholars are researching the public’s attitude and…

immediately into a series of pop culture cues, referencing their ability to gain support of a population towards one side. He uses these to connect to his idea the that media is no longer a source of knowledge but instead a rallying force for the government when he says, “What Top Gun, Rambo and Red Dawn did for the ‘80s, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather and Peter Jennings set out to for the new millennium” (34). He makes this connection in order to transition the reader from a more popular discourse to…

One of the first ways to sizing the significance of Martín-Barbero’s work and writings about communication and culture can be weighted by the epistemological twist his thinking triggered in the field of cultural studies and communication in Latin America. In short, this spin meant breaking up with the binary ways of thinking, from both Marxism and Functionalism/Administrative traditions. Secondly, the relevance of his intellectual proposal is also based upon the importance he gives to the actual…

society. Multicultural television can strengthen the beliefs of how multicultural societies are viewed in society. Müller and Hermes explain how pop culture plays an important role in defining the role of multicultural societies in the media. Ultimately, Müller and Hermes finds relation between popular cultures and cultural citizenship and how popular culture helps to define the audience reactions to multicultural characters on television. Cultural citizenship is described as bringing strong…

social culture. These shift can be explained though three different approaches to how culture is consumed and produced. This paper will focus of comparing and contrasting two of them in analysis of the shift of Shakespeare. The two approaches this paper will focus on are art worlds and the production of culture perspective. This paper will first look at the conventions of Shakespeare as art in pop culture, then it will look at the different spheres that shaped Shakespeare from popular culture to…