The Product Of Popular Culture

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In the article, “What Is Popular Culture and Why Study It,” Deanna Sellnow describes to one the importance of pop culture in our world today, how it shapes people’s identities, and the reasons they should be aware of our culture today. Whether people realize it or not, Sellnow says that pop culture screams at them from every angle of their lives. Although pop culture can be the things seen and heard in one’s surroundings, it is most prevalent through media. Movies, magazines, and music are all examples of mediated popular culture that is cheap entertainment for the enjoyment of the mass population. Many people are influenced when they tune in to the messages these things are sending. Some of these messages may challenge

Stories come and go, but Washington Irving integrates “Rip Van Winkle” into American Mythology by describing mysterious events and their consequences. Rip Van Winkle, the main character, unknowingly walks into a mystical trap that costs him dearly. The man agrees to help a seemingly helpless fellow carrying a keg of liquor, and he enters an amphitheatre that held “a company of odd-looking personages playing at nine-pins” (Irving, 68-69). After settling down, Rip Van Winkle tries the mysterious liquid and slowly falls into a deep sleep, and twenty years later, he finds himself in different society and is confused to the point he “can’t tell what’s [his] name, or who [he is]” (Irving, 69-75). As Irving crafts his story, the main character comes

There has never been a time when popular culture has been more pervasive and influential in American society. With advances in technology and creative innovation, outlets for popular culture have expanded greatly and are virtually innumerable. Through the consumption of television, music, magazines, movies, newspapers, blogs, and memes to name a few, American citizens and others around the globe are inundated with ideals and images that work to mold their collective psyche by impacting every facet of their daily lives and by providing a critique of modern-day society. Perhaps much of the influence of popular culture lies in the fact that its primary function is to appeal to the masses;

Some people suggest that everyone between the ages of 18 and 21 should be required to perform one year of community or government service. Such service might include the Peace Corps, Environmental Conservancy Corps, a hospital, the military, a rural or inner-city school, or other community outreach projects. I believe forcing the service of any group of people is a bad idea. In this case, three reasons come to mind as to what makes this idea bad. First, I see this as a form of indentured servitude, even though the folks may earn a paycheck. Second, I feel that this idea takes away from the idea of the United States being a free place to live. And third, much like the idea

“Nobody Knows: How the Media and Culture Industries Work” by David Grazian explains the relationship between the media and how culture creates a web of networks that assist the implementation of popular culture in media. Media plays a huge role in how popular culture is spread to different parts of the world. In addition, the article emphasizes the importance of how film, music, and record industries bring in revenue and how they are able to attract the audience through the utilization of the media to spread the product. Grazain also points out that it is quite difficult for the industries to target an audience as everyone prefer different types of genres. However, the industries will rely on boundary spanners and gatekeepers. These individuals

When this idea is utilized in television, a large divide appears between shows that display artistic elements and series that become the newest popular sensation. This phenomenon is apparent when comparing the HBO show Girls, with the ever popular ABC Family drama Pretty Little Liars. Girls presents a complex, carefully detailed plot line along with characters who refuse to abide by social norms. Pretty Little Liars on the other hand follows a generic and predicable script, complete with plot holes and lackluster characters devoid of diversity. The fact that Pretty Little Liars reigns more popular than Girls proves that aesthetic appeal is not valued in today's cultural landscape, uncovering the separation between art and popularity in television. Girls and Pretty Little Liars represent two different ends of the artistic spectrum; Girls is widely considered to be art despite its lack of diversity, whereas Pretty Little Liars is more popular yet is associated with low brow culture given

In this essay I intend to explore what is meant by the terms popular culture and high culture. I will also look at how the relationship between these two terms has become distorted and blurred over time. In order to reinforce what I am saying about popular and high culture I will be using a range of examples from the music industry to show how the line between high culture and popular culture has become ambiguous. I will also call upon the work of John Storey to give my work an academic foundation. Although Storey is the main academic I will be looking at, I will also include references to a number of other academics who have written about popular culture and high culture.

Popular culture has an undeniable influence on how society perceives itself. When examining mass culture, one must keep in mind the equilibrium between how much we, as a society, affect the way popular culture is constructed and to what extent popular culture influences the way we view ourselves and shapes our ideologies. An aspect of popular culture that may serve to greatly exemplify this theory of society as both the affecter and the affected is the genre of magazines targeted at young women. Though these publications are targeted as the representation of our society’s adolescent females, they actually have a great influence over the ways in which teens view and construct

Chapter 10 presents a more politicized approach to cultural studies. Storey examines the ways in which popular culture and high culture are often presented in contrast with one another, drawing distinctions between ‘them’ and ‘us’. Again this can be related back to hip-hop, which was formerly or still held as a rebel culture, to now a unified one. It is the pipeline for effectively communicating to and with young people. The pipeline connects to the political, social, and cultural views of the vast majority of Western youths. My generation does not fondly find unity and/or enjoyment in higher art forms such as opera or ballet, but finds it more in the art of hip-hop. I feel like we need to have a view that culture has a value, not just in terms

Popularity contests are often notable within the modren media industry. This composed report will outline "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception", composed by Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer with the below objectives. It will investigate representations of "Gender" and "Race". As well, it will provide primary focus on key concepts, such as, “Mass Production” and “Culture Industry” . The above will be finished in detail while utilizing Don Scardino 's series arrangement: 2 Broke Girls as an essential case/ spotlight and both Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer’s "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception".

SUMMARY

Popular culture reflects the past and continues to show the society how it has been created and influenced. Popular culture is a collective idea that is created by many individuals, not just one. In the society, culture is created by a collective group that believes a particular idea or thing should be a culture that spread to people. It allows new discoveries, projects, or ideas to make culture more popular among the people of the society. In addition, the article also explores why culture is popular since “popular” has different connotations attached to the word. It could mean that it is widely well liked by the society or people are able to recognize the figure or icon. For instance, Princess Diana is an icon that is easily recognized and many people know who she is and what happens in her life. With iconic figures, music, and media, it is unlikely for popular culture to go unnoticed in the society, especially if it is everywhere. Culture also refers to other ideas other than just beliefs and norms. Culture can be music, art history, or a way of life. As the audience of popular culture, we tend to draw on social identities and life experiences to understand media and popular

3. Progressively, high culture has been seen to be supplanted by popular culture is driven on by 'democratic conditions.' It is the certified articulation of an imaginative phenomenon which is exceptional whereby low culture is much of the time fabricated for a group of people of consumers. Low culture is sometimes seen as a 'judgment expression' to mean anything that is the inverse of high culture, and in the cutting edge, age alludes to anything that is created by culture industry to make a benefit. It is viewed as an examination of the standard may make critical advances into society. However, it has attributes that make it pervasive and steadily evolving. The advent of phone and computer innovation and the availability of multi-media has

Mass culture can be defined as the collective culture created by exposure to the same news sources, music, literature, art and consumer advertising. The rise of mass culture is a relatively new phenomenon that has occurred largely because of the rise of a leisure class fueled by technological innovations, the surplus in production brought about by the industrial revolution and the time the average consumer had to dedicate to non-work pursuits brought about by the delineated work schedule favored by mass production and labor laws which defined the limits of the production schedule, and created a new space for workers and their families (Jacobs 13). Prior to the advent of mass

The study of popular culture is useful in many ways. To specify, this course has reached its three intended main ideas: what it means to be an American, how to be consumption-conscious, and how to apply these studies in our own lives. Jim Cullen puts this in a less specific sense, arguing that the study of popular culture can “afford valuable clues – about collective fears, hopes, and debates” (Cullen, The Art of Democracy, 2). We study these clues to understand the world around us, as well as why we do what we do as Americans and as humans. I will be touching on themes that relate to this quotation by Cullen, escapism, exploitation, and globalization, and how these themes relate to the course goals.