PPT-ENGL 6310/7310 Popular Culture Studies

Fall 2011 PH 300 M 240540 Dr David Lavery No Whey Yes Way The Persistence of Velveeta Exaggeration Novelty Strangeness Plastic It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world Expecting more novelty than there is more greatness than there is and more strangeness than there is we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe But a world we can shape to our willor to our extravagant expectationsis a shapeless world. 3815 Survey of Popular Culture. Fall . 2013. PH . 321. Dr. . David . Lavery. The “TV is Better Than the Movies” Meme. Survey of Popular Culture. As an admitted one-time . (TV). antipathist. , my first conscious encounter with the now proliferating “Television is better than the movies” meme. C4K4. Objectives. 1) Threat to Folk Culture.. 2) Environmental Impact of Popular Culture. How . MDC’s. threaten LCD’s Culture. Rise in incomes = rise in demand of. Western products. . Loss of Traditional Values: may turn away from traditional material culture of food, clothing, and shelter. Why?. 3815 Survey of Popular Culture. Fall . 2013. PH . 321. Dr. . David Lavery. Survey of Popular Culture. Survey of Popular Culture. Prehistory. History. Review of . Boys Will Be Boys: Critical Approaches to Simon and Simon. Four Approaches. Pre-popular culture. “The highly instructed few, and not the scantily clad many, will ever be the organ to the human race of knowledge and truth. Knowledge and truth . . . are not attainable by the great mass of the human race at all. Typically begins with an idea/good and contagious diffusion.. Companies can create/manufacture popular culture. (ie. MTV). Individuals can create/manufacture popular culture. (ie. Tony Hawk)-video games involving extreme sports popularized skateboarding and other sports.. Fall 2013. PH 321. Dr. David Lavery. Survey of Popular Culture. Survey of Popular Culture. Survey of Popular Culture. Boorstin’s Epigraphs. Technology . . . the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.—Max Frisch. Fall 2013. PH 321. Dr. David Lavery. Survey of Popular Culture. Daniel Chandler’s Semiotics for Beginners. Watch short videos on semiotics from YouTube.. Survey of Popular Culture. Semiotics. Daniel Chandler’s Definition: . 6480/7480. , Studies in Contemporary Literature: . Mad Men . and the Sixties. .  . Dr. David Lavery. Summer 2015.  . Poets of the 1960s. ENGL . 6480/7480. , Studies in Contemporary Literature: . Mad Men . And the Sitcom. ENGL 3815: Survey of Popular Culture. ENGL 3815: Survey of Popular Culture. ENGL 3815: Survey of Popular Culture. “Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”. Objectives. Diffusion of Popular Housing, Clothing, and Food. Electronic Diffusion of Popular . Culture. Underlining thread to popular culture is CONSUMPTION.. Diffusion of Popular Housing, Clothing, and Food. Dr. David Lavery, Fall 2016. Entities and Groups. Special Topics in Popular Culture, Fall 2016. Brotherhood without Banners. Special Topics in Popular Culture, Fall 2016. Children of the Forest. Special Topics in Popular Culture, Fall 2016. C4K4. Objectives. 1) Threat to Folk Culture.. 2) Environmental Impact of Popular Culture. How . MDC’s. threaten LCD’s Culture. Rise in incomes = rise in demand of. Western products. . Loss of Traditional Values: may turn away from traditional material culture of food, clothing, and shelter. Why?. Dr. David Lavery, Fall 2016. Directors. Special Topics in Popular Culture, Fall 2016. Game of Thrones . Directors. Special Topics in Popular Culture, Fall 2016. Game of Thrones . Directors. Special Topics in Popular Culture, Fall 2016. ‟one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language” (Raymond Williams, . Keywords. ). Modernity: we no longer regard our ways of life as . unproblematically. natural, but we are conscious of our culture as .