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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"American Popular Culture"”.
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"Becoming an American Princess?": The Interpretations of American Popular Culture by Young Korean Girls Living in the United States
… young Korean girls' understanding about the American popular culture by using peer group discussions. Assuming that children are active learners in interpreting American popular culture, it focused on how they constructed distinct meanings for the significance that American popular culture …
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Ground Zero: Nuclear Weapons and Social Transformation
… the icons of nuclear war and nuclear weapons in American popular culture from 1945 to 1963. In this study, iconological analysis is applied to the depiction of nuclear icons in American popular culture during the period of the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons. From initial press reports of …
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The Santa Claus Girl: A 90-minute Teleplay
… Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus." Written for a popular audience, "The Santa Claus Girl" reveals the editorial's timeless message of love, generosity and devotion through the character of Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas. She became a teacher in the New York City Public School system, completing her …
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Fake Realities: Assassination and Race in Popular Culture
… and/or are followers of Islam. Elements of American popular culture since 9/11 have portrayed assassination, with the antagonists generally being of Middle-Eastern or Muslim descent while the protagonist being a white American or from a country allied with the United States who is involved …
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Cannibalism in contact narratives and the evolution of the wendigo
… Woman</em>. To close, I demarcate the trend of American television shows to appropriate the wendigo, ascertaining a fundamental misunderstanding of indigenous cultural beliefs by American popular culture.</p>
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Michael Daugherty's Red Cape Tango: A Comparative Study of the Original Version for Symphony Orchestra and its Transcription for Wind Orchestra, with Four Recitals of Selected Works by Beethoven, Dvorák, Verdi, Bartók and Daugherty
… world by composing works inspired by icons of American popular culture. Red Cape Tango is the final movement of his Metropolis Symphony, a work inspired by the life and times of the comic book character Superman. This movement in particular deals with the death of the superhero through the use …
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She Had to be Bad: The Femme Fatale in Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction and Film Noir
… exists as a highly stereotypical figure in American popular culture. Although the character’s antecedents are often located in the biblical figure of Eve, the <em>femme fatale</em> did not become a cultural icon until the publication of Hard-Boiled detective novels in the 1940s. The …
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The Beautiful Struggle: an Analysis of Hip Hop Icons, Archetypes, and Aesthetics
… and events within the context of African American and American folk and popular culture traditions and link them to developments within hip hop culture, discourse, and aesthetics. Because hip-hop emerged as an American phenomenon, I examine pre-hip hop American popular culture in the …
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Reading "The uncanny X-Men" : gender, race, and the mutant metaphor in a popular narrative
… since that time the genre has become a staple of American popular culture. While superhero stories have been adapted into every popular storytelling medium, the genre is most closely associated with the comic book industry. This dissertation examines the first 500 issues of The Uncanny X-Men, one …
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The American Way: What Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and the X-Men Reveal About America
Comic book superheroes have become adopted into American popular culture, and yet few have considered why these characters resonate with Americans. The first comic book superhero premiered in 1938 when Superman appeared on the cover of the first issue of Action Comics. For almost seventy years his …
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<i>Sucker Punch</i> and the Political Problem of Fantasy to Female Representation
… are convinced to buy products) dominates American popular culture and, since the female body features so centrally in these fantasies, feminism is charged with disrupting a complex system that equates women with pleasure. <i>Sucker Punch</i> is important to this discussion because it is a …
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Only Underwater Can We Breathe: The Book of Mermaid Contemplations
… have become a cultural zeitgeist. Judging by American women’s ongoing and increasing interest in watching, writing about, and performing as mermaids, many women feel empowered by the mermaid’s hybrid body. Yet there are darker depths to the mermaid myth that continue to be ignored in …
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The waging of a virtual war against Islam: an assessment of how post-9/11 war-themed video games stereotype Muslims
Research suggests that American popular culture represents Muslim peoples, places, and cultures in ways that perpetuate Islamophobic ideas, and scholars have examined how fictional television shows and films communicate Islamophobic ideology among the American public, and around the world. While …
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Transatlantic Latter-day Saints: Mormon circulations between America and South Africa
… in the country should be defined as distinctly American. By tracking historical transatlantic circulations, mapping changing territories, and utilizing the comparative strategies of scholars such as Jonathan Z. Smith and David Chidester, this study documents and analyses the changing …
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Reality Bites? The Cultural Politics of Generation X and Youthful White Masculinities in Sport and Popular Culture in 1990s America
… white masculinities throughout the 1990s in American sport and popular culture that are simultaneously constituted by, and constitutive of, the Generation X discursive formation of this era. In particular, I examine the images of white masculinity produced within media representations of …
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A Specific Elsewhere: Locating Masculinity in Jack Kerouac's On The Road
… to experience the more marginalised aspects of American society. This dissertation offers an interpretative exploration of the ways in which Kerouac’s chronicling of his travels in On the Road: The Original Scroll presents images of, and the search for, a subjectively authentic experience of …
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Gender, genre and globalization : discourses of "Femininity" in the popular culture of the 1990's
… construction of gender and femininity in American popular crime stories, focusing on the years 1989-1994. I argue that popular notions of gender and femininity acquired new significance at this time and that the renegotiation of these concepts can be read in, enabled by and has had an …
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“The Day Everything Became Nothing”: Finding Meaning in the Postapocalyptic
… postapocalyptic fictions and their ubiquity and popularity in contemporary culture, each work will be analyzed individually to explore each author’s message regarding postapocalyptic concerns. These three texts have been chosen as each represents a point along a loose continuum of high-to-low …
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Funk My Soul: The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And the Birth of Funk Culture
… Jr.'s untimely death had a profound impact on American life. In this dissertation, I argue that the assassination inspired musicians, producers, artists, and consumers across the nation to reconstruct soul music and, in its place, construct the cultural idiom known as funk. Narrating the …
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