Pop culturestudyintroa
- 1. Pop Culture
- 2. Popular Culture • What is it? • Is it important? • What Does it Say About Us?
- 3. Pop Culture: What is it? • Populous Culture= • = the people • shared attitudes, beliefs, values and traditions.
- 4. Pop Culture: What is it? It is: • our everyday interactions, needs and desires Convention + • our everyday life Invention • the likes and dislikes of millions of consumers
- 5. Forms of Pop Culture – Music – Television – Sports – Toys – Comic Books – Film – Advertising – Fashion – Magazines – Cyber culture
- 6. 4 Elements • Objects • People • Places • Events
- 7. High and Low High Culture Pop Culture • Fine Art • Tattoos • Theatre • Break dance • Classical Music • Rap • Superficial • Consumerist • Sensationalist • Corrupted
- 8. Time Pop Culture – is constantly changing – is not fixed in time – bridges generations, decades
- 9. Why study Pop Culture? History • Attractive + relevant • To understand culture • Since 1967 • Influence and impact on • Liberal arts individuals, on • Cultural Studies families, on institutions • Bollywood, dumpster • More than facts + trivia diving, LOL • YOU are a participant in pop culture • because
- 10. The Mirror of Pop Culture Issues – Ethnicity – Gender – Sexuality – Cultural Imperialism – Censorship – Race – Violence
- 11. How to study Pop Culture • Content • Effect • Production Analysis • Historical Analysis • Consumerism • Gender • Content Analysis • Racial Attitudes • Sociologists= count • Violence • Identity • Textual Analysis • Text= anything you study • • Figure out the meaning • Surface meaning • Deeper meaning