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to the second and third of Williams’ definitions of ‘culture’ when linking it to ‘popular culture’. In the past the term was linked to those of the lower classes, high classes would enjoy poetry, opera, literary novels and ‘arthouse’ films, whereas the lower classes would enjoy romance novels, soap operas, reality tv, musicals etc. This could mean that popular culture merely refers to the things that didn’t make it or were left out from what people believed was high culture. ‘Popular’ refers to something

A Comparison of American and British TV Comedy Sit-coms in television history have been one of the most important genres for expressing the values of the middle and lower classes in our society, not in order to make fun of them but to express the best of them in a softer way. For the general public today, the sit-com is like the pantomime was for the Victorians. British comedy still has a Victorian taste, but it is one that is only recognized and truly appreciated by

A Thousand Acres as Movie is Melodramatic and Bogus   Perhaps Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "A Thousand Acres" was a bit over-rated. For one thing, the book's "dark secret" seemed utterly implausible. I just didn't believe that the book's protagonist and narrator, a 37-year-old Iowa farm wife named Ginny, could have completely repressed the fact that her father had sex with her when she was 15 years old, night after night, for a year. For True Believers in "Repressed Memory

Whatever It Takes “Whatever it takes… I know I can make it through.” When your ears awakened to this catchy theme song, it was inevitable that Degrassi: The Next Generation was on-air. Televised from all aspects of the department of education; parents, students and faculty. You receive a depiction of reality as well as a true insight of transforming through a conditioned environment; an educated institution. Degrassi has been popular for decades, continuously creating new sub-series maintaining

States leaving minorities at even more of a disadvantage. Among many, Hesham Issawi is an example of a person who has tried to push back against these stereotypes through art and film. In his film American East, Issawi demonstrates the struggles Muslim Americans go through daily. Portrayed as the typical American Muslim, main character Mustafa Marzoke (Sayed Badreya) is shown experiencing everyday struggles. Issawi pushes against the terrorist stereotype stapled to his culture. Additionally, he dabbles

Fast forwarding to another era in history that deals with the same type of actions of the Holocaust. The Civil Rights movement started in 1954 and ran through 1968. During this time period many African American men and women protested the treatment of African Americans by the white citizens as well as the government and create a society where all people were equal despite their race and ethnicity. Rallies and protests sprung up to combat not only the idea that blacks and whites must be segregated

Eating Disorders and the Media Eating disorders have become a major problem throughout the world, specifically in the United States. The key factor that has an influence on eating disorders is the media. Including people of all ages and genders, up to twenty-four million people suffer from an eating disorder in the United States (ANAD np). This is a huge problem in the world today but what makes it so much worse is the fact that it can be prevented and it is in our control to change it. Young adults

hyper-ironism are portrayed. Quotationalism is utilized in pop culture to make references from other works. Rather than humor being genuine or on a sense of world-weary clever-than-thou-ness, hyper-ironism is humor that is dark and cold. The well-known American sitcom, Friends aired in the year 1994 and lasted until 2004 but is still very popular in today’s pop culture.. Friends consist of six main characters name Ross, Rachel, Chandler, Monica, Phoebe, and Joey whom all live in one of New York’s boroughs

environments the audience can relate to. Reality tv technology is real- time viewing of all the places the audience is not. It is the ultimate peek into a neighbor’s kitchen window, or bedroom window at that matter (Slocum). Typically, the cast are not actors, although in some shows celebrities may participate. Over the decades, reality tv has become a phenomenon that some individuals

The desire to achieve the American Dream was an important ideal in the 1950’s and many families modeled themselves after what they saw on television. Once television sets began to be a staple in an average family’s living room, the family changed. Television shows depicted the “perfect” image of an American family. One with a mother, father, son and daughter, a “nuclear” family. The mother was most often times depicted as a housewife, with the husband a breadwinner, coming home late and having to