Popular culture

Dracula’s Influence on Popular Culture Dracula, by Bram Stoker has had an influence on the popular culture. It has had many movies, books, and plays made about it. There have been numerous books and movies published about it. The book itself was published on May 26, 1897. He has created a mythical person who some wish to be. Dracula has been made in many different movies. Even though there are other vampires, many of them will reference to Dracula by Bram Stoker. Some people have said that it…

My opinion about this concept is that cool changes so quickly and once everyone has it and it’s so popular it’s not cool anymore so they come up with something new that is better and even more popular. 2)…

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…

When looking at the past, rock and roll music played a very significant roll in popular culture. Rock influenced daily lives, attitude, and fashion throughout most of the twentieth century. Now, in the twenty first century, rock music is getting pushed out of the mainstream norm and we are switching to hip hop/rap music, especially among today’s youth. This brings a twist in our culture and we can see it by the way it affects the younger people. Rap music, most of the time, features lyrics…

styles close ties to fan culture and the cosplay subculture as well as the modest dress style it’s no real surprise the fashion was adopted and adapted by young Muslim women who were a apart of those cultures. Unfortunately once again there is little written, in the way of academic articles, about this subculture. However websites aimed at pop culture fans have provided a larger degree of information of the subject as the community and subculture grow larger and more popular. Lolita fashion…

Today, the animated 20th century American political culture revolves around the widely accepted idea of an ongoing culture war among states and voters alike. The term of a “culture war” is most commonly and enthusiastically used by the journalistic community and is defined as the displacement of ordinary economic conflicts by moral and religious ones in the advanced democracy. Moreover, news, media and other political studies seek to represent pictorially and statistically a deeply divided…

Captain Obvious admits that Pop Culture is U.S Culture” Pop culture is U.S culture with some terms and conditions. Pop culture is defined as anything that appeals to the masses. Everyone subconsciously adopts “american” as their norm alongside their own social background. The biggest example of U.S culture turned pop culture is social media; facebook, twitter, instagram and tumblr. All of those platforms spawned in the U.S and now are worldwide commercial entities. The movie industry is another…

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…

of comic book character. One thing comic book grammar that I would use to determine the significance of these characters when circulated through different mediums would be visual metaphor, which Duncan defines in Power of Comics: History, Form and Culture as, “a picture of one thing to evoke the meaning of something else.” (Duncan, 2015) My argument in this area of rhetoric would be while comics do have powerful and meaningful text often. So, can the deeper metaphors that comic book literature…

Firefly: The Best of both Worlds Popular culture introduces individuals to communities, heck it helps create communities. Think about the TV shows and the bands you like, you are drawn to others who also enjoy those things, right? Just like fables and fairytales, shows like Firefly, the Simpsons, Parks and Rec, or Avatar bring people together through common interests and viewings. TV shows and movies have created huge communities around them and have given people who are literally across the…