Star Wars Influence On America's Pop Culture

Political Consensus and Pop Culture of World War II World War II continues to be the most tremendous global war throughout history. This war effected everyone, especially the political beliefs in each country that was involved. In America, the role of pop culture made an impact on the political consensus of Americans in a constructional manner. During World War II, the entertainment industry effectively helped produce a national consensus celebrating the American way of life. Consequently, this

American popular culture has always been a market for sales. Everything that is and has made pop culture what it is in America has been built through commercialization. The ability to sell the main product and then the countless other revenue items that go with that product define American culture. Today in the United States a person would be hard-pressed to fined a movie showing in theaters that does not have a soundtrack out, t-shirt even action figures that go along with it. So where did this

and pop culture, no exceptions. I think that this is what Klosterman wants to express. He believes that there is a wall of performance style between white and people of color in pop culture. “Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we’re simultaneously cowardly and arrogant. We don’t know the answers

Cultural Destruction American pop culture can readily been seen in many aspects of American life. “Pop” was originally coined to mean “popular.” While this literal meaning still holds true, pop culture has spun into a new generation. While pop still describes what is popular, the term has taken on a negative connotation. Today, the term is used to describe bands such as the Backstreet Boys and N’Sync. Britney Spears has also been coined as a pop singer. The term pop is often seen as a downfall and

actors such as these have become increasingly omnipresent in people's lives all around the globe. American popular culture with its above-mentioned

Popular culture throughout the 20th century, critiqued people’s opinions and preferences of consumer goods through literature, artworks and film. American author F.Scott Fitzgerald criticized popular culture’s influence over the consumer market and the corruption of consumerism presented in his novel The Great Gatsby. While, the introduction of Hollywood marked the beginning of popular cultures appeal towards main stream society, celebrities starring on the silver screen sold the illusion of the

To what extent did popular culture and music affect U.S. public opinion on the Vietnam War? I.B. Internal Assessment Chavez, Miguel History HL Port Chester High School Word Count: 2,131 May 2016   Table of Contents Part A: Plan of Investigation……………………………………………………………Page 3 Part B: Summary of evidence…………………………………………………………...Page 4 Part C: Evaluation of sources…………………………………………………....………Page 7 Part D: Analysis …………………………………………………………………....……Page 9 Part E: Conclusion………………………………………………………………

new art form that challenged all previous art forms by utilizing graphics from modern culture and advertising. The purpose of this new art form, known as “pop art”, is to expose basic and unoriginal ideas within society. Pop art could be considered satire in art form. Many people believe this critical form of art was the artists responding to the abstract expressionist era. Two very influential aspects in the pop art movement were Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and their works. Andy Warhol was born

Aside from special effects, the story and characters of Star Wars have also massively affected American’s culture, especially modern pop culture. When it comes to the persona of characters in a movies, no franchise has more of an impact on film or TV than Star Wars. For instance, Princess Leila can be seen as a strong, badass female who has her own agenda while independently pursuing her goal throughout the movies, which influences many other strong female characters such as Sarah Connor in Terminator

be the label of the sixties but it wasn't the only thing influencing culture. We often forget one of the most powerful influences of this time and through all of history to currently is music. The sixties is a decade that holds many history making changes, from assignations to wars, but looking back you can see what the music was about and it clearly points out why certain things were popular. It was a huge factor in culture and still is today. How can you define a decade? The answer is you

known as innovators of the genre. Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry were some of the many artists in Rock-n-Roll who will always live on in their music. Many teenagers were also to identify it due to its rebellious nature their disapproval of the cold war. Towards the end of the 1950s, Rock-n-Roll was ending

1950-1960 During the 1950's, the United States experienced great change with the end of World War II, making it difficult to label the busy decade. America was the most powerful nation in the world and it was a time of complacency. The United States accepted two new states, Hawaii and Alaska (www.fifties.com). The science world boomed with new inventions; televisions broadcast nationally; rock n' roll was popular; commercial hotel and fast food chains became common; the car industry exploded;

The first recovered piece of music was a religious hymn and was written in cuneiform, but did not include instruments, only vocals. In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, ragtime and classical music was popular, but 10 years later, African American influence helped popularize ragtime

respective time period, it is always important to find a few key artists that were responsible for the rise of new art trends. Traditionally, art has often a reflection of the most important elements within its respective time period, such as wars, religions, royalty, culture and expression. This is why the study of art history is needs to look deeper than simply understanding how certain artworks were created. Among the various artists studied in the course, Andy Warhol is definitely one of the most influential

when in fact they are complete opposites. Going back thousands of years in Korean culture, North Korea and South were just a part of the country Korea. Fast forwarding to the 1950’s the northern part of Korea started to become a communist country. America swooped in and started to shape the southern part of Korea as an ally for the United States and make them a part of the capitalist movement. After the Korean War, Korea became divided into North and South Korea. North Korea became a communist