Pop Culture Vs American Popular Culture

Nowadays it is impossible to imagine the USA without American popular culture. The American popular culture is inside and around us, people feel it every day and they even do not think of it, when they eat fast food in McDonald’s restaurant or watch a popular TV show with Oprah Winfrey, or purchase their favorite Levis trousers. American popular culture is a topic of interest for every generation because it seems to influence almost each aspect of the social life, making people united.

Due the the geographic reason, Canadian culture is often seen as similar to the United States. For instance, language, political beliefs, food, religion and social well-being. I agree that most part of the American popular culture is being adopted by most Canadians because of the powerful media such as movies, films and books are produced by the American. Massey-Leveque, who is a chancellor of the University of Toronto, argued that “ Canada is cultural dependent in its ‘uncritical use of American education philosophy”(as cited in Gasher, M., Skinner, D., & Lorimer,R., 2012,p.196). Hollywood, one of the biggest and most famous film corporations in the world, is devastating part of the Canadian culture. The reason is that by multi-billion

Because my neighbor is considered suburban it often gets a bad rep. A lot of people think that suburbs are boring and aren't interesting. As this suggests, the problem is also cultural. For the most part, American culture and opinion are still created, even in the Internet age, in cities at either edge of the continent. If intellectuals do deign to look at the suburbs they assume that so much banality must be hiding something deeply

To begin with, American popular culture takes attention away from Canadian popular culture. Therefore, more people identify with American popular culture than Canadian popular culture. The American film industry is bigger and better than Canada’s. Furthermore,

When people in Germany have a little bit of free time they choose to watch movies just like many Americans. Jan said that he really enjoyed watching “hollywood movies.” He said that hollywood movies were way better than the movies that are made in Germany. “Germany movies are terrible,” is what he had to say about them. After he said that I started to think about how American culture is slowly imperializing other countries. American culture is becoming the new normal for other countries.

American film-making technology was the most advanced in the world, and local Australian films could not compete. This lead to America dominating the Australian film industry - and heavy exposure to the American way of life.

During the 1920s, movies grew in popularity in the United States due to their affordability and availability. This led to a general curiosity about the actors’ lives themselves and gave Hollywood a harsh reputation due to all of the scandals that occurred. In the 1950s, movies declined in their popularity and the American public turned their attention toward television. As a result, television became an American staple and TV shows were more convenient than movies, seeing as they could be watched without leaving the house. Now Americans can watch both movies and TV shows at home via DVDs, and are still interested in the personal affairs of the actors and actresses involved. In general, Americans lead

The question of this research is sort of narrow that the question specifies the Hollywood movies and effects of movies on specific people who are Americans.

Finally, American culture has imitated not only the modernists visual extravaganza but also their tendency to be apolitical and anti-ideological. Refusal to intimidate the public with social messages explains, more than any other factor, the worldwide popularity enjoyed by the American entertainment industry. American films in particular, have customarily focused on human relationships and private feelings, not on the problems of a particular time or place. Presented stories of romance, intrigue, success, failure, moral conflicts, and survival. The most memorable of the thirties [with the exception of The Grapes of Wrath] movies were comedies and musicals about mismatched couples, not socially conscious films dealing with issues such as poverty

Chapter 3 in Major Problems with American Popular Culture discusses the meaning and purposes of popular culture in the 19th century American society. The text presents a variety of materials attributed to America popular culture of that time, such as accounts of Fejee Mermaid exposition, extracts from the 19th century Shakespeare's adaptations and the eyewitness testimony of the Astor Place Riot in 1849. Furthermore, the YouTube video sources discuss the concept of imagined community, first suggested by Benedict Anderson. Imagined community is discussed in the light of popular culture, which becomes an alternative instrument of imagining communities with the emergence of different types of media, it being film, theatre, news or internet.

This article examines influence of cultural globalization within the United States in the 1970s and 1980s based on its popularity. The first half focuses on Animes from that time period, describing characteristics that was both Japanese and contained Western racial and gender hierarchies, letting it be accepted

Each novel includes a different spin on the monomyth. However, pop culture also follows a similar format. My favorite band, Chiodos, includes a song on an older album that alludes to the albatross and limitation of life. The song is named “We swam from Albatross, the Day we lost Kailey Cost”, the tone of the song releases a melancholy mood and harsh, slow drums and guitar sounds. These interesting and relevant lyrics partake, “ There in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait, we'll wait in that place, Still, all I’m looking for is something, something that I’ve found, we can't go back... If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? Everything that happened between us was real...So say goodbye now” (Bone Palace Ballet 2008).

In addition, an independent research conducted in Bryant University suggest that out of 50 domestic students, 35 students like watching Indian movies whereas 8 did not like Bollywood movies and 7 have not watched it yet. Though the sample size is small, it serves to show that the domestic people are watching and accepting Bollywood movies. Netflix is an American internet based steaming media provider company which provides more than 100,000 movies. The most interesting fact is that 89% of the Foreign Movie section in Netflix, is Bollywood movies. Netflix has about 33.1 million viewers in United States alone and yet the “Most Watched Movie “and “Foreign Movie” section consist of many Bollywood movies. This shows that Bollywood has influenced the domestic audience as well the industry itself. The influence of Bollywood element and the Indian culture can be seen quite evidently in the music, dance and visual representation in Hollywood movies.

The movie I am reviewing is Coming to America. The movie was released in 1988, and starred Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall. Eddy Murphy plays an elite African price accompanied by his friend played by Arsenio, who make a trip to America in search of a princess to be in order to avoid an arranged marriage. This movie was a great choice for reviewing in a pop culture diagnostic sort of method. Some of the notable findings were the emphasis on high culture and low culture, as well as some mass culture aspects. The various applications of popular culture can also be found throughout the film. This film review will cover a brief summary of the movie, as well as, how the film is relevant to the study of popular culture.

Some of the interesting info to come out of the polling included what Europeans viewed as the best of American culture, “40% said movies and TV were the best American cultural export” (Cohen). These results connect to the idea that TV shows and movies create a great influence to those outside of the United States. Of course it is understandable that things like Hollywood would be popular all across the globe. Hollywood is one of the largest movie industries in the world. However, not everyone is pleased with American TV shows and movies. In fact, much of this hate actually comes from citizens of the United States. In the same poll, “…when asked to identify America's worst contribution to world culture, 32% of Americans pointed to film and television, a far higher proportion than in any other country and the single most popular response among U.S. respondents” (Cohen). Even though many other countries view American TV and films with admiration, Americans believe that it creates the highest negative cultural influence. This is of course compared to what Europeans chose as American’s worst contribution to the global culture which was food. So while some of these polling responses fit what would be expected, some of the American response was unexpected. Thus showing that many countries will have different views on how a country may be like, but in actuality, the actual image may be surprising.