Popular culture

masculine hero and his depictions of battles against evil entities. The story of Beowulf has influenced our modern culture and society as he is portrayed as an “epic hero”. He is brave, strong, and willing to make everything right. The “epic hero” concept is used to make a character desirable, in many modern productions. Beowulf has impacted several popular modern movies and popular culture. Films such as Spiderman, The Wizard of Oz, and A Bug’s Life are just some of the many influenced by…

Once we started discussing Popular culture phenomenon’s in class I was slightly perplexed. My confusion in itself was confusing as We all join in on, or at least observe popular culture phenomenon’s daily. Since the internet became so prevalent we start to see an exponential rise in cultural phenomenon’s popping up. The western world especially has an irritating amount, of constantly new fads and phenomenon’s that most of us feel we should follow. Following these trends keeps us “in the loop”,…

Popular Culture – Fashion Fashion has always mirrored people’s attitudes of different times which is definitely true for the 1960’s. This decade was marked by the change in the community and especially the youth culture. Kids grew up and demanded their preferred clothing style. Designers started to bring out more colour and bold designs of clothing. Reds, greens, and other colours attracted the public and soon everyone was wearing vibrant colours instead of the older grey, brown and dull colours…

Popular Culture: Perpetuating Fat and Slut Shaming Popular culture is notorious for many things, but the portrayal of the obese and the portrayal of women have the most influence in my life. The twisted ideals that have been held up for years have molded my mindset and my self esteem through popular tv shows, movies, music, and toys. For example most girls grew up playing with Barbie and Ken dolls, but as a little girl I was never allowed to get Barbies because they were too expensive. I was…

The Effects of Stereotypical Humor Through The Disciplines of Media and Culture Many people tend to use humor as a positive communication skill to make us laugh. Humor has long been used as a tool to navigate and promote stereotype through the form of media and popular culture with reference to current affairs. Humor can also be used to help people cope with the offensiveness of being stereotype. By defenition stereotype is known as a generalization, usually exaggerated or oversimplified and…

builds a sense of alienation and craze deriving from the expectations placed upon her in the American popular culture surroundings because of social expectations, her self-critical attitude, and her ambition being constantly shot down. Popular culture is defined as the entirety of ideas, perspectives, and attitudes that are mainstream of a given way of life of a group of people. The popular culture of 1950’s America consists of women expected to remain pure and obedient to men and to conform to…

When popularizing the trend, the popular commodities are anyplace at that moment. People are intend to follow the on-trend products. And the social medium are using advertisement to render the advantages of commodities, many industries are getting benefit from this. Trend is a phenomenon…

As each year passes, more facets of popular culture become somewhat like wrestling: a stage-managed reality in which scripted storylines bleed spontaneously into actual events, with the fuzzy line between fact and fiction seeming to intensify, not diminish, the viewer’s obsession with the melodrama. The modern media landscape is scattered with reality shows that viewers know that are not real; that basically, is professional wrestling. In the same vein as soap operas, melodrama can be…

The inequalities between men and women can be perceived in many domains within our society, in which one of them being within popular culture today. There are many sexist barriers and restrictive notions about women’s physical appearance, their athletic ability, and their roles within society. Within popular culture today, women have been targeted by many stereotypes that criticize their skills and abilities. Advertising has the most powerful effect in which as the ability to create, shape and…

It Is More Than a Role: POC vs. Popular Culture The misrepresentation of people of color in popular culture has become a cataclysm in our society. Regrettably, the blatant misrepresentation had not received as much cognizance until recent controversies surrounding the 2016 Oscars. The visual of the homogeneous audience that night became a catalyst for awareness. The tension from the issue unveiled how there was still an undercurrent of racism present within the system, and that in turn exposed…