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Popular Culture and Patriarchy

The Opinions of Laura Mulvey Laura Mulvey uses psychoanalytic theory to explore cinema in her article entitled "Visual Pleasure ...

Creating an Individualized Corporate Identity for a Hotel

the core logo is shown below in figure 1, however, it is also used in different formats. The web pages see this core image, but al...

Society, Weight, and Popular Culture

and 1990s, "the percentage of Americans suffering from an eating disorder has doubled, according to the U.S. Public Health Service...

Popular Culture and the Influence of TV News

scientists, parents and educators are becoming more and more concerned about the influence television has on the lives of American...

Popular Culture and Postmodernism

the nineteenth century, or so, the art world seemed to go into a slump. Quite like writers block, this slump saw a lull in the art...

Popular Culture and American Pop Art

to define its own unique identity was by emphasizing its strengths as a highly industrialized capitalist society. An artistic mov...

Popular Culture Violence, Superficiality, and Obscenity

it is directed. In this "information age" of the 21st century, the manipulation of information, regardless of how it is presented...

Moscow's 1980 Olympic Games and Russia's Popular Culture

towards the attack, the United States Olympic team boycotted the event. "In 1980 it was a symbolic stand, backed up with all sort...

Advertising and Senior Citizen Treatment by Popular Culture

"Demographers predict that the numbers of elderly people will double in the next 30 years" (pp. 3). As the population of America ...

Popular Culture, Gender Constructs, and 'New Femininities'

and behaviours, and seen as being in direct opposition to "femininity", which is equally constrained in its parameters, and define...

Popular Culture Defined

reality there is no generally agreed up, all inclusive, definition of popular culture. Any individual who is asked will known that...

Popular Culture and Media Portrayals of Child Abuse

The ways in which popular culture and the media publicly portray child abuse are considered in this literature review consisting o...

Asia and American Popular Culture

Buddha would slowly give way to American capitalism, as pop culture stretched "from Singapore to Seoul, Bangkok to Bombay" (Smith ...

American Popular Culture and Gender Roles

In five pages this paper discusses how gender roles are created by and are reflected in advertising, popular culture, and educatio...

Popular Culture and Mass Media

In eight pages this paper examines how mass media affects social perceptions regarding products, politics, and people. Five sourc...

Popular Culture and Sound Synthesizers

In six pages this paper discusses the historical impact of electronic music on popular culture. Four sources are cited in the bib...

Popular Culture and Rap Music

In ten pages this paper discusses the sociocultural impact of rap music in a consideration of the genre's history and development....

Contextual Approach to Media Criticism in 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws'

This is an historical research paper of 8 pages that discusses the impact these films had on popular culture, economics, technolog...

Popular Religion Conceptually Defined

In five pages this paper conceptually defines what is meant by popular religion in an historical overview of ancient Greece and We...

Mainstream Psychology and the Explanation of Gender Differences by Feminism

but one aspect of feminism in the middle part of the twentieth century; however, along with it also came undesirable consequences....

Culture of Turkey

In 8 pages this paper on the culture of Turkey includes a discussion of popular music, juvenile crime, and prisons. There are 5 ...

Harley Davidson Motorcycles and Their Influence

In five pages this paper examines the popular culture influence of Harley Davidson motorcycles. Ten sources are cited in the bibl...

Ron Padgett's Poetic 'Treasures'

In six pages this paper discusses the popular culture impact of Ron Padgett's poetry. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Pop Culture and Pop Art According to Jean Baudrillard

In ten pages this research paper examines how popular culture and art is aesthetically assessed by French social commentator Jean ...

Leadership Opportunities and Gender

Gender roles and power as it appears in popular culture are issues discussed. Various issues concerning leadership skills and opp...

Hollywood vs. America by Michael Medved

In six pages this paper examines the conflict between Hollywood and popular culture as considered in the text by film critic Micha...

1970s' Art and Urban Change Reflections

been seen were though of as to sophisticated and complex, appeal to the elite and to abstract from every day meaning. Two of the m...

Carmen Martin Gaite's The Back Room and Popular Cuture

the narrators apartment and intrude upon her thought processes. She writes that they are "fingered for such a long time, they beco...

'War on Drugs' and its Political Benefits

the creation of organizations. NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) is perhaps the best known group that...

Feminist and Marxist Perspectives on Pop Culture

material conditions and may be equated with historical materialism ("Exploration," 1992). They emphasize the economic value of wo...