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Marxist Perspectives on Culture and Mass Media

Trade-union * Communications (the mass media) * Cultural (literature, the arts, sports, entertainment etc.) (Underwood, 2000). ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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....

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...

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...

'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...

Cultural Scene Analysis of Paul Haggis’ 2005 Film Crash

on the marquee, the classic Frank Capra holiday film starring James Stewart. The night is clear as evidenced by the lack of umbre...

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...

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...

The Origins of Baseball Terminology

are the batter being on deck or in the hold. The ocean is not the only place that baseball owes its colorful vocabulary to. Appar...

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...

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...

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....

The Effects of Trends in Popular Culture

and loss of money due to gambling. A significant trend that teens have been aligned with, as a result of electronic media, is tex...

Weapon Technology Advances and American Popular Culture 1920 through 1960

to make advances toward the enemy, and the advent of the machine gun in WW I replaced warfare which was fought as cavalry. The o...

Historical Changes and British Racial Discourses

races interact in that culture. These races include blacks, Asiatics, Hispanics, and Arabics to name just a few. British...

eZine's Adverse Influence Upon Pop Culture

society. This reflection of popular culture can be quite concerning when it affects our young and moves them into the more aberra...

Socialization and the Individual

in Western culture. Consider, for example, the games played by rural Indian children and compare them to the games played by rura...

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 ...

Pop Art: Art and Popular Culture

includes paintings," which contrasts sharply with the fact that considerable critical "attention has been given to popular music a...

Popular Culture of 1950s America

not something that sprung up in the 1990s or 1980s. Yes, it is a 1950s phenomenon ("Film History of the 1950s"). McDonalds was fra...

Popular Culture and Patriarchy

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

Popular Culture and Childrearing Advice

small child and does not occur spontaneously with children until they make the cognitive leap, around age three, that an object ca...

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...

Wal-Mart Company Culture

controversial because of their human resource practices. Many employees are very loyal to the company and yet, they have had more ...

Popular American Culture and Recent Trends

the tip of the iceberg. Aaron Gross (1996) asks: "Should the state be required to support as well as legally grant rights and priv...

Popular Transitions in American Culture

as a society allowing these changes to occur. In this day of liberalism, this day of where every problem is believed to be best a...