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enthusiast of anything, from sports, food to even fashion trends. That is to say, we use the term ‘fan’ loosely to describe our preferences towards something and anything. However, this usage is incorrect, as fans are actually specific recipients of popular culture. Fans are actually distinctive audience of various types of media, holding in-depth knowledge of the product and have continuous consumption of the said product (Siuda, 2010). In fact, fans are also described to be socially minded…

Popular Culture Final Assignment A. Questions and Answers 1. What is meant by high culture, low culture, and folk culture? Explain and give some example! Answer: According to Rob Kroes (1996) in the book entitled If You’ve Seen One, You’ve Seen the Mall, Europeans has the metaphors that the use to visualize America and one of those metaphors ‘represents it as a country of leveling, erosion, and shallowness’. Kroes also mentions how ‘Europeans tend to pride themselves on a firm sense of…

the zombie metaphor creates an intellectual space unencumbered by preexisting political biases” (3). As a fictional construct in film and literature, any political assumptions on acceptable foreign policy strategies against a zombie outbreak… In popular culture, zombies are used to create a fictional lens in order to see the real problems of world. In Max Brooks’s novel World War Z, one is able to make sense of the anxieties of living in late-modern capitalist societies because of the focus on…

drive, we listen to the radio we hear it in the shopping malls, and at times, we even put popular music as our cell phone ringtones. Even so, popular music has revolved around us in our everyday lives, and almost every pop song released on the radio gets big hits. Why is popular music gaining so much attention? It seems as if popular music is the norm in our society today because everyone listens to popular music. However, what we should really focus on is that pop music should not be considered…

Ancient Stories in Popular Culture George Santayana once said that “those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” While Santayana’s quote usually accompanies a discussion about reckless wars and terrible genocides, it can also demonstrate that despite all of our technological and academic advancements, human nature stays the same. Which is why years, decades, even millennia will not change the effect that a great story has on humans. Epic tales of heroism are repeated and…

Introduction: The genre of popular music has thoroughly saturated every aspect of the music industry with catchy tunes, relatable lyrics, standard music notation, and popularity vote. The portrayal of this music is thought to be seen as the genre that is taking over from all other genres due to the popularity with the accessible availability that comes with it, and having a specific target group that they are able to pull in. My thesis states that the music for this topic identifies and…

While the previous chapter discussed popular culture and its influence from the functionalism approach, this chapter examines it from the critical approach. The structure of this approach came from the ideas that Marx’s provided; both the social and economic structure of a society are a reflection of its culture and symbolic imagery (47). Cultural hegemony emerges as a result of power through persuasiveness; since society is nearly controlled by the mass media due to the fact that it creates…

1. Television, movies, or music? The three vehicles mentioned above have a huge impact on popular culture and society. Television is the visual element, movies being what I would call the edited visual element and music the element that you hear. Of those three vehicles, television has the greatest impact on politics. Television is used to broadcast news, events, and updates regarding everything happening in our society. Rather it is something that has went viral online, or an after math of a…

make them distinctive in global cinematic domains. Through the simulations of Britishness, The ceremony thus becomes a global audio-visual commodities (Tzanelli, 2013: 59). The performance heavily emphasizes on the nationally iconic personality from popular culture such as Mr Bean and James Bond and successfully achieved a blending of the seriousness and entertainment. In the next section ‘Happy and Glorious’, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh enter the stadium, the royal navy…

to bash a certain race, desecrate women, or outwardly reject the LGBT community, would it gain a positive response? Of course not, this is 2016! In order for popular culture outlets to appeal to modern viewers, the content must remain current; from movies to television shows, society expects them to keep up with the times. Therefore, popular culture provides a reflection of changing attitudes regarding a multitude of social constructs. Where the public stands regarding topics such as racial…