Popular culture

Ruins in Popular Culture: A Story of Metamorphosis” Herzog uses historical criticism, while “A Consideration of Kafka’s Metamorphosis As A Metaphor For Existential Anxiety About Ageing” uses pyschological criticism. “Kafka’s Ruins in Popular Culture: A Story of Metamorphosis” is superior while “A Consideration of Kafka’s Metamorphosis As A Metaphor For Existential Anxiety About Ageing” is inferior because it talks about age and death and how one is better than the other. “Kafka’s Ruins in…

211) explain, the individual who gets pulled into a crowd has probably observed the prominence with which crowd voice has been covered in the media, and attached some meaning to it. Therefore, crowd violence becomes portrayed in the media as a popular culture, and serves to vindicate the sociological theories of emergent norms and social learning. More broadly, information, as Fruin (2002) states, also relates to the messages passed in events or occasions. Such message can have the effect of…

Influence or Influenced? The Dictionary.com definition of pop culture is “Cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general mass of people.” But it is so much more than that. Pop culture has become a way of life for most Americans. It may look like it is reflecting the general public, but it the general public is more influenced by pop culture than pop culture is by the general public. Pop culture doesn’t give the people a voice. When…

Though many gender role advancements were achieved in past and future decades, these were more segregated in the 1950’s than they were in even colonial times. Popular culture constantly influences society; the 1950s were no exception. In this era, there were rigid gender roles represented in popular culture. To start, magazines were filled with degrading advertisements for women, as described in the article “Women’s Roles in the 1950s” from American Decades, “The magazines of the time were…

In this essay, my three examples of disability in popular culture will be Becky from the show Glee, JJ from the show Speechless, and Forest Gump from the movie Forest Gump. My first example is Becky. In the show, Becky seems to be well liked from her peers. She is also puts on this tough front and is very sassy but also has feelings and gets upset like everyone else. Her peers around her are very careful not to hurt her feelings and sometimes treats her like a child. Socially Becky is on the…

Popular Culture: Beauty and Sexuality in the 1950’s Unit 2 Response Paper SaJuanna McCrary Arizona State University WST 371-Professor Michelle McGibbney Vlahoulis Popular Culture: Beauty and Sexuality in the 1950’s Unit 2 Response Paper After the war America had a different battle within the construct of their societal expectations and views specifically regarding women. Previously they had needed women to leave their role of homemakers and work in jobs solely held by men (Haralovich,…

Australia first hosted the Olympic games in 1956. These games were a major turning point in Australia’s popular culture. It changed the face of Australian sport, allowed women to participate in sport more and it helped the production of Televisions in Australia. As Ron Clarke lit the olympic flame on the 22nd of November, 1956, the landscape of Australian sport changed forever. Australia is often considered to be a 'sports mad' country. Australia is known for being a top performer in the…

Hip-Hop, today, is one of the most influential subcultures in popular culture, and its music is considered to be one of the most popular and powerful genres. In it’s origins, It gave voices to the youth of the 70’s and 80s, and gave them relevance in a world that otherwise wouldn’t through their paintings on New York subways that went “all-city”. Youth and even other, older, individuals with voices that were unheard were eventually heard through all means of Hip-Hop as well. The Hip-Hop movement…

Meredith Kressen Bobby Howard PHIL 2203-001 Fallacies in Popular Culture In 2001, Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert were both cast members of the hit television show, The Daily Show, which airs on Comedy Central. During one of their segments titled “Even Stephen” the two poked fun at each other while either arguing extremely for or extremely against a certain topic. The video I have chosen to analyze was an argument regarding the topic of a patient’s bill of rights. Although there are many…

Broad City and its Producerly Elements By Jalina Brown TA: Jesse Yang Menn Section: Friday, 10:35 Broad City, Comedy Central’s latest situation comedy, features two women in their twenties living and working in New York City. Although it is still a fairly new show, it has already gained a substantial fan base. These fans can be found on the show’s Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter feeds posting clips of the show, quoting their favorite characters, and submitting fan art. The producerliness of the…