The website provides resources for the critical analysis of popular culture in the US‚ including the impact of that culture beyond national borders. Resources include sites on various forms of popular culture‚ including music‚ film‚ television‚ advertising‚ sports‚ fashion‚ toys‚ magazines and comic books‚ and the medium in which this message moves‚ cyberculture. The site focuses on issues of race‚ ethnicity‚ class‚ gender‚ sexuality‚ cultural imperialism and censorship‚ as shaped by and reflected
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American Popular Culture on the Global Community American popular culture and its effects on the global community is a hiding plain site idea. The United States has grown into an “I want it now” belief system. The United States has somewhat perfected this idea‚ from our fast food to our fast everything. But should everyone live in such a luxurious attitude‚ is the United States popular culture and ideal that the rest of the world should live by? Is this just another phase in our modern society’s
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1 W h a t is Popular Culture? - - - aus: STOREY‚ John: Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. London e al. (PearsonlPrenUce Hall) 2001 t I Before we consider in detail the different ways in which popular culture has been defined and analyzed‚ I want to outline some of the general features of the debate which the study of popular culture has generated. It is not my intention to pre-empt the specific findings and arguments which will be presented in the following chapters. Here I simply
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amount of literature on how Native Americans are represented in our popular culture. Over the past several decades‚ Native Americans have been mythologized in films‚ TV‚ video games and other forms of popular media. And‚ “For the most part‚ the white man’s visual expressions of Native peoples have been dominant” (Boehme‚ et al. 1998:75). It is these depictions that have created a false impression of American Indians. As anyone could guess‚ the conquest of the American Frontier in the Old West is a period
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it is also the year American popular culture experienced a watershed development as British groups gained popularity in the US and became significant to the transatlantic counterculture. This paper‚ while focusing on the forerunner of the British Invasion – the Beatles – provides an overview of the British Invasion and examines its impact on American popular music. In doing so‚ it investigates the success and historical significance of the invasion in the evolution of popular music. Until the British
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In Native American culture‚ it is common practice to use stories as a way to teach the young children lessons. The stories were told orally‚ so therefore they could be altered to fit the needs of the group that day. The stories are aimed toward children‚ but the lessons can be grasped at any age as they deal with many of the themes of Native American Spirituality. Some of the main lessons we learned through presentations in class are we need to find a balance with nature‚ have humility to contain
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The new unified Vietnam became the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV). the With Americans gone‚ however‚ Vietnam’s military problems were not over. In neighboring Kampuchea (previously named Cambodia)‚ Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge began a reign of terror in hopes of creating a pre-industrial utopia‚ murdering around 2 million people in so-called "killing fields." In 1978‚ the SRV invaded Kampuchea to stop the Khmer Rouge‚ in what became known as "Vietnam’s Vietnam." While the invasion put an end
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Observing how other people live provides perspective for anyone that differs from their situation. Society has modified itself to be an extremely judgmental place‚ where stereotypes run popular culture. History has shown that those who are well off financially‚ have easier and better lives than those with less money. While wealth is important when it comes to developing careers and businesses‚ it fails to consolidate people. In order for a group of people to become unified‚ a common component has
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Popular Culture in the form of media does not always do a fair job of reflecting accurate characteristics of men and women. Society has added to this by creating what is known as gender roles among men and women. They are like a type of social guidelines which men and women follow in order to be accepted by today’s society. Although this was designed with the best intentions it can have negative results. There are many examples of gender roles playing a part in our society. Television serves
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part of American pastime throughout the many generations‚ but it wasn’t always loved and accepted by the American people. Throughout the many challenges that the game of basketball faced it still overcame adversity and turned into something so beautiful and successful. The evolution of American basketball can be read as a "text" to reveal the character of American popular culture during the 20th century. Through an analysis of the history of basketball‚ a generational "image" of the American people
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