Feminism and Pop culture By: Brittany Stevers In the recent history‚ feminism and pop culture have become more closely entwined than ever before. This can be partially because of the growing interest in culture studies as an academic discipline‚ but it can also be explained by the fact that‚ there’s a whole lot more popular culture to watch. Pop culture has become our common language‚ a universal way of uniting the world. Pop culture is also a key route to making the
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Media has changed the perspective of it’s audience of different cultures and political problems. Early movies and even books that portrayed cowboys and Indians‚ disguised the cowboy as a hero and the Indian as a savage‚ both were portrayed incorrectly by the media by what actually happened historically. Bringing this idea back to the present it is still seen but replace cowboys with the average American citizen or soldier and the Native American with an Arab or Muslim. “As paranoid‚ oversensitive
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Pop Culture in Academic Classrooms In discussions of the academic classroom‚ one controversial issue has been the incorporation of popular culture in a scholarly style. On the one hand‚ Gerald Graff‚ an English professor who has been teaching for several years at the University of Illinois in Chicago‚ argues that “street smarts‚” which can relate to popular culture‚ have educational value and can help young students show and develop their intellectualism. On the other hand‚ Mark Bauerlein‚ an English
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In reference to pop culture‚ Jessica D’Aprile‚ I thought that your example of the Twilight film and books as an example of pop culture were an excellent choice and I agree with you. This is a series that definitely meets the requirements of pop culture. The book series became extremely successful and the film became a high grossing film that spawned numerous sequels. This had a big effect in pop culture because at the time audiences were responding to it. This was a series that showed a different
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Pop culture is transmitted via the mass media and aimed particularly at younger people. Pop culture can be expressed through many different ways such as fashion‚ music‚ television‚ movies‚ cars and sports. Pop culture was targeted at teens for many reasons. These reasons were that teens cared how they appeared and were influenced by the images and looks. After World War 2 finished‚ improvements to entertainment started to happen this gave people more ideas and new trends. To understand pop culture
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Abstract Western pop culture has been a phenomenon that it has influenced every aspect of society. In this paper I looked into how it has affected a third world country such as the Philippines‚ how pop culture has changed the country and its people. I find that some of the changes were for the better and some changes had a negative impact. Influences of Western Pop Culture Culture and traditions are significant in countries like Philippines‚ which has always cherished its rich heritage and
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Jamie Moran May 8th‚ 2017 Analytic Essay Professor Shaw Substance Use by Teenagers and the Influence of Popular Culture: Symbolic Interaction and Social Learning Perspective According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA‚2014)‚ by the time an adolescent is a high school senior they have tried some type of substance. The NIDA states‚ that 70 percent of the high school population has tried alcohol‚ 40 percent will have smoked a cigarette‚ and more than 20 percent will have used a prescription
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Pop Culture Plants Insecurities in Young Minds Does popular culture psychologically affect society’s self-perception? Society spends an alarming amount of time on social media outlets such as television and the internet to follow their favorite celebrities. This unhealthy amount of exposure to these people‚ who are being constantly trained and edited into these “perfect” human beings‚ causes the average person to feel insecure and go through extreme measures to resemble them. Alarmingly‚ those
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Pop culture and society Przemysław Dworzyński Pop culture‚ or popular culture is by dictionary defined as “cultural activities or commercial products reflecting‚ suited to‚ or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people”. The term “popular culture” came into existence in the 19th century or earlier. Traditionally‚ the term has meant the education and general cultural awareness of the lower classes‚ as opposed to the "official culture". The stress in the distinction from
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Confirmatio: Body Image and the Media There is an evident overexposure to media which emphasizes the importance of being attractive. The National Eating Disorders Association reports “sexually objectified images of girls and women in advertisements are most likely to appear men’s magazines; second most prevalent directed at adolescent girls. The message communicated is clear: the sexually portrayed women we see in the media stand as the standard of beauty. Dove outlined the Photoshop process of
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