June 2011
4 posts
America’s Toughest Essay Assignment
There are many things in this world that one could call popular culture, essentially anything that the masses of people have come to like and agree upon as being “cool”. One such thing would have to be the hit T.V. show “America’s Best Dance Crew”, or ABDC for short. Seeing as how I myself love the art form known as dancing, I was hard pressed not to choose a T.V. show about it, and ABDC...
WANTED BY THE POLICE!!!!!!!!
Or rather, just “Wanted”, as in the name of the movie. “Wanted” is an action movie about a regular guy who lives a pretty crappy life. What he didn’t know, was that he was the son of an elite assassin whom killed killers. He, like his father, was born with the special ability to increase their heart rate so incredibly fast, that their reflexes increased dramatically. For much of his life, he...
Oh goshhhh, it's Hannah Montana!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't...
A show that I would consider to be a situation comedy would have to be Hannah Montana… Yes, I said it, Hannah freaking Montana. Now don’t judge me for choosing Hannah Montana as my T.V. show choice, because I don’t watch T.V. oh so much. I’m only choosing Hannah Montana because I seldom watch T.V and it is the only show I ever do watch. But I don’t watch it because I want to, but rather...
The Irreplaceable Lazy Song. Yep, The Lazy Song...
It was tough finding a music video that had to deal with contrasting gender issues. Not to mention finding one that made a “little” bit of sense and had good lyrics, let alone two!! But after some tough researching, I finally managed to find one, or rather two. I stumbled across a couple that had some contrasting points on the way we think about gender. One of the songs was “Irreplaceable” by...
May 2011
3 posts
Simon says Bookworm... No, no, Bookface... No......
Facebook being pop culture? Hmm, I would still go with the decision I made during class, which was that Facebook “does” constitute pop culture. While there were some great examples against the idea of Facebook being pop culture, I just couldn’t shrug of the fact that Facebook is something that everybody knows about and/or uses. Facebook is somewhat like Google, yet all the while, completely...
Works Cited
Storey, John. Cultural Theory and Popular Culture An Introduction. 5th ed. Harlow:
Pearson Education, 2009. Print.v
Simon says, this is the First blog...
Popular culture is a difficult term to define on its own. It is made up by two separate words. One being “popular” and the other being “culture”. To understand what popular culture is, you must first understand what “popular” and “culture” mean. The meaning of “popular” is essentially something that is accepted by the majority of people, or as what some would like to call, the “mainstream”. The...
