Popular culture

This paper will examine how the film: The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) contains ideas which are formed around popular culture. Popular culture is defined as the sum of cultural things such as music, fashion, cyber culture, television and media that society follows (Crossman, 2016). The first topic that will be explained is how status, power, money and drugs affected the main character, Jordan Belfort. The second topic will be regarding the sexual objectification of females and how females were…

Introduction Popular culture is defined as a form of identity and expression that is frequently encountered and widely accepted, approved and liked and characteristic that are unique to a particular society at a specific time. There are many sources of popular culture. The primary source of popular culture is the mass media, especially film, television, video game, tradition, and the Internet. Advances in communication tend to allow a greater transmission of ideas via word of mouth through cell…

When people think about 1945 they think of wars won and new technology that makes our lives easier today. However, there was a popular culture or movement that boomed throughout the United States and is still popular in today’s culture; tattoos. Tattoos have been around for centuries with the earliest known man Otzi who was predicted to live around 300 B.C. and he had tattoos still inked to what’s left of Otzi. However, tattoos had different meanings throughout the years and change meanings to…

The culture industry itself is self-named, an industry primarily based on values of an assembly line. The culture industry continues the governing of human beings under the appearance of freedom, as the goal of the culture industry is to reproduce the values of capitalist culture by producing false pleasures. Similar to the movie, Bob Roberts, is a deceitful businessman but like many others, he projects an image of himself as being fair, reasonable and righteous. In the movie residents believe…

aegyo behavior that South Korean popular culture portrays perpetuates the sexualisation of young girls. Groups such as Lovelyz and GFRIEND have music videos—both of which have more than three million views on YouTube--that are filmed in schools and are dressed in school uniforms. Their attire in these videos has tops that are short enough to expose their stomachs and wear short skirts along with high heels to exaggerate the length…

Japanese Popular Culture Essay In both the novels “Japanese Popular Culture and Globalization” by Tsutsui and “Riding the Black Ship” by Raz, the theme of culture and transnational flows are discussed. In “Riding the Black Ship”, Tokyo Disneyland (TDL) is described as a merge of American and Japanese culture, as the very American concept of Disney is adopted by Japan in a very Japanese fashion. The service, attractions, and appeal found in TDL stay true to the American standards while being…

Language has always been one of the most crucial building blocks to the personal puzzle of self-identity. It is the carrier of culture, and culture is the carrier of identity. In some of the earliest days in history God recognized this fact. He realized that the best way to prompt his people to heed his command and obey his words during the building of the Tower of Babel was to confuse their languages. Why did he do this? Because taking away the common language of the people completely…

Living in the 21st century, one can’t deny the impact of modern technology. With the rapid advancements in modern technology, people now have the access to the media and popular culture is readily available in larger quantities than before. The wide access to media and popular culture has opened the new generations up to for more communication. According to the scholar Grossberg, “we live in a world of media communication where we can travel great distances and across centuries, all in the…

most of you probably know already, I'm Madonna, a popular singer and actress. This is the 80's, a decade with a different type of music. How many of you listen to pop music? (Wait for audience's reaction) There's been a big change in this decade in music, especially pop. Although it seems more boring than the 1960's or 70's, our music today is still a big part of our culture. Before, most artists made their own music. Folk was a very popular style of music. Artists used their musical…

hero” status “the stuff Americas made of” as described in the article The Cigarette's Powerful Cultural Allure. As Americans we are a culture of movie watchers, story tellers, and day dreamers. So when our favorite character in a movie smokes or our most memorable fairy tale has a plethora of smoking innuendos, what would we expect to be part of our popular culture. As the host of NPR news Simon Scott put it, even with the addictive quality of cigarettes “ there is just something about the…