Explain Popular Culture

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Course No. 8 - C :- The Cultural Studies
Presentation Topic :- Explain: ‘Popular Culture’

1. Name :- Pritiba B. Gohil   Roll No. :- 21   Course No. 8 - C :- The Cultural Studies   Presentation Topic :- Explain: ‘Popular Culture’ Enrolment No :- PG 14101016    M.A. English Semester - 2 Batch Year :- 2014 - 2016   Submitted to :- Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

2. Popular Culture What is It ? Is it Important Or Not ? What Does it Say About Us ?

3. What is It ? :- Pop culture is the vernacular (people’s) culture that prevails in any given society. Popular Culture is also known as Pop Culture. Popular culture is the culture of Masses. Heavily influenced by mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of the society.

4. What Is Popular Culture Or Definition :- Popular culture is the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images, and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century. The general culture of a society, including ideas, music, books, and the mass media, as opposed to high culture. The term “Pop Culture" became mainstream during the 1980's.

5. How is Pop Culture Determined ? :- By everyday interactions, needs and desires, the cultural “moments” that make up our everyday lives.

6. Who Influences Pop Culture ? :- In modern society, pop culture is influenced by the industries that disseminate cultural material. Film, television, news media, music, publishing, anime.

7. What Makes Pop Culture Unique ? It is constantly changing It is specific to time and place

8. Types Of Popular Culture Analysis :- There are four main types of popular culture analysis like, Production Analysis, Textual Analysis, Audience Analysis, Historical Analysis . These analyses seek to get beneath the surface (denotative) meanings and examine more implicit (connotation) social meanings

9. Forms of Popular Culture :- Music Television Sports Toys Comic Books Film Advertising Fashion Magazines Cyber culture

10. Issues in Popular Culture :- Race Ethnicity Gender Sexuality Cultural Imperialism Censorship

11. Categories Of Pop Culture :- The most common pop culture categories are: Entertainment (movies, music, TV) , Sports, News (as in people/places in news) , Politics, Fashion/Clothes Technology .    

12. Entertainment :-

13. 2. Sports :- Cricket

14. 3. News :-

15. 4. Politics :-

16. 5. Fashion And Clothes :-

17. 6. Technology :-

18. Conclusion :- Each one of us has our own pop culture menu. Look at your apps, your bookmarks, your songs playlist, TV shows, movies: what you 're saying on your favourite social net. Smartphone today are the centre of our pop culture.