The Portrayal Of American Pop Culture

“Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are […]” quoted by Gloria Steinem. Culture has a great influence on the way people view the world and others as seen in the stories By any other name by Santha Rama Rau, Everyday Use by Alice Walker, and Two Kinds by Amy Tan.

Pop culture influences your actions, the decisions you make, what you believe, and your opinions on social events. This includes celebrities, music, fashion, and television. Since pop culture is around us all the time, waiting on line at a store, in newspapers, on the radio, many people make it a priority in their everyday life. Pop culture deffinitly influenced me and many other people through music. Although he is very controversial Kanye west is my biggest Pop culture influencer.

W. Scott Poole’s chapter, “Undead Americans”, focuses on American pop culture and its relation to shaping realities. Poole discusses the popularity of zombies and vampires within American pop culture while also examining how it stems from war, specifically the Vietnam War. Through Poole’s discussion of zombies and vampire, it also creates a problem within the individual, “a concern over the possibility of a personal apocalypse” (Poole, 204). While focusing on examining American pop culture and its relation to reality, it includes the relation of unease within American society (Poole, 217). Based on Hoefferle’s eighth chapter, the definition of new cultural history is formed through understanding “how past cultures shaped identity and created

Thanks Dee for responding! I am ecstatic to hear that you learned something from the PowerPoint! I have a varying opinion to yours when it comes to the media's portrayal of the Islamic faith and Muslim people. Unlike you I watch a variety of media outlets including those focused on pop culture to those that tackle pressing issues. I have noticed that all outlets have a tendency to misrepresent members of particular race or ethnicity, often to enhance the sensationalism of the story. However, more responsible media outlets will be sure to clearly differentiate the actual story from the race or ethnicity of the perpetrator making the source more reputable. Generalizations are something that we as a nation are notorious for. All .. this or All..

Our iGeneration at times can be so self-absorbed and pop culture evidently seems to be the only thing that interest them, sadly enough. The notion that those who do not reflect on the history of the past are doomed to repeat it rings true. Humanity, family values, have dissipated throughout the years as our connection to people in the age of technology have been lost.

In her piece, after a cringe-worthy anecdote about her teenage daughter’s interest in hip-hop music that just screams middle-aged white mom, Wittes Schlack goes on to comment on the many popular shows she has never watched, including Lost, Breaking Bad, Stranger Things, and of course, Game of Thrones.

One conclusion that you can make about Americanization is that attitudes toward American pop culture vary dramatically by age around the world. One trend that the table shows about Americanization is that younger people are more likely to have a more positive attitude towards American pop culture than older generations. One other example of pop culture from 1950 to the present is the globalization of soccer. Due to the establishment of the Olympic games in 1896, this leads to a sense of internationalism and put sports on a more global sphere. A popular sport that emerged was soccer because it attracted different populations and socio-economic classes. This is because it is simple in its principal rules and essential equipment, so the sport

Parts of pop culture that powerfully affected contemporary life; their iconography—taken from TV, comic books, film magazines, and all types of promoting—was exhibited insistently and objectively, without acclaim or judgment yet with overpowering consciousness, and by methods for the exact business procedures utilized by the media from which the iconography itself was obtained. Pop art spoke to an endeavor to come back to a more target, American Pop art had a tendency to be significant, unknown, and forceful; English Pop, more subjective and referential, communicated a to some degree sentimental perspective of the Pop culture encouraged maybe by England's relative separation from it. English Pop specialists tended to manage innovation and pop culture fundamentally as subjects, even illustrations; some American Pop craftsmen really appeared to experience these thoughts.

Popular culture in the United Staes Of America is seen and Influenced by Africans, Native Americans, Polynesians, Asians, and many more more. The most popular culture is entertainment that we see on television, movies, video games, news, sports, and etc. Popular culture uses a unique way of influencing today’s society. Popular culture I also think influence certain trends that go on each year for the old generation and new generation. For example chokers, ripped jeans, and many more other trends.

Convergence is a top-down corporate-driven process and a bottom-top consumer-driven process. Media organizations are figuring out the method to quicken the stream of media substance crosswise over conveyance channels to extend income openings, widen advertises and fortify watcher responsibilities. They are battling for the privilege to join more in their way of life, also to control the stream of media in their lives and to talk back to the mass market content. Infrequently, these two strengths strengthen each other, making nearer, more fulfilling, relations between producers and consumers. Once in a while, these two strengths are at war and those battles will rethink the substance of American pop culture. The media organizations are not carrying

Stereotyping is a very common tool used by film makers because it is a simple way of establishing a trait of a character in a movie but it provides a single-sided portrait of certain people based on their sex, gender, religion, race or age. As an example the way Arabs, particularly Palestinians, are portrayed in cinema. The American cinema has painted a picture full of misconceptions about them and created a stereotype that has been exacerbated in many movies since the dawn of hollywood. Because Cinema is a powerful tool that manipulates and reshapes the thoughts of audiences by making spectators passively consume all presented material, it made it easy to manipulate the minds of people to serve a political agenda mainly the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Jack Valenti a former president and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America had said: “ Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA”.

Modern Jewish identity is explored and represented through various portrayals in film and literature American pop culture. A complicated facet of this identity is associated around Jewish masculinity and where the Jewish man fits in contemporary society. Brought forth in Otto Weininger’s Sex and Character we come to understand that the Jewish man is perceived to be effeminate and lacking the character traits most commonly associated with the true masculine identity that is most popular for the portrayal of men in the media of today. Films such as The Producers, A Serious Man and Annie Hall all represent characters that adhere to the traits of the “Jewish man” Weininger describes. The filmmakers intentions of showing this characterization stems from an acknowledgement of validity and what that means to be a Jewish man in modern American culture.

After the war, people have their choices about how and what they want to wear. Because of this, teenagers started a new and novel subculture called “Teddy Boys”. Teddy boys is a working class youth culture that the British teenagers wore oddly uniform to create an identifiable look among people. According to the video, the influences of American pop culture cause this phenomenon. In the early 1950s, Rock and Roll emerged among young British teenagers, and these teenagers eagerly want to consumer the products that related to the American pop culture in Britain.

“Americanization” is one of the principal concerns that largely represent the world culture aside from the homogenization that supposedly to take place the new globalization of culture. The dominance of American market and great influence of its political system impacted cultures. For instance, patronizing the American Pop culture especially by the teenagers of other countries, contribute to the proliferation of American market in terms of trade and services. Exposure to prior cultural trade somehow affects others’ local and national culture and there are people who believe that it undermine cultural identity.

Through years of going to English classes in city colleges in the United States I become familiar more with characters and concepts that I haven’t heard them before. My English learning experience was engaged with American pop culture, simply because that is the most dominant topic that came from instructors. It is remarkable that pop culture icons are important in contemporary society and most of teachers trying to use them in curriculum for educational direction. It help to understand the culture in the country but at the same time it was confusing for an international student and a English learner since the language shortage mixed with concepts and general knowledge shortage and made it more confusing for me. This case is not only limited for me, due to limited intensity of English skills and lack of mutual cultural activities, international and ESL students’ engagement in class might often be not equal as native speakers.