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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"pop culture"”.
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Being out of the loop on pop culture
… satisfaction when they are out of the loop on pop culture (Iannone, Kelly, & Williams, in preparation). Five studies expanded on previous research by exploring theoretical issues and potential boundary conditions. Study 1 developed a new method and explored theoretical foundations of being out …
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Anxieties and artificial women: disassembling the pop culture gynoid
… feminine-presenting robot, or gynoid, in three popular sci-fi texts: The Stepford Wives (1975), Ex Machina (2013), and Westworld (2017). Centralizing a critical feminist rhetorical approach, this thesis outlines the symbolic meaning of gynoids as representing cultural anxieties about women and …
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Discourses of Fusion and Crossing: Pop Culture in Korea and Japan
English crossing serves as the entry point for young Koreans and Japanese into a global economic order and is positioned as a positively valued strategy of individuals. In particular, bilingualism and linguistic versatility in the form of crossing into languages other than one's own can be viewed …
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Serializing the Middle Ages: Television and the (Re)Production of Pop Culture Medievalisms
… obvious visual textuality, widespread popularity, and virtually untapped scholarly potential offer an excellent medium through which to analyze pop culture medievalisms—the creative tensions that exists between medieval culture and the way it is reimagined, recreated, or reproduced in …
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Dawn of the Undead Classroom: Pop-Culture in the First-Year Composition Classroom
… A. Ellison delves into the positive effects pop culture and genre have on the first-year composition classroom, exploring how engaging students through a common discourse that is relatable and comfortable can aid in their writing and composition progression. She explains how teaching under a …
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A Great Time to Be a Nerd: A Phenomenological Study of Pop Culture Enthusiasts and Fandom
This thesis explores the significance of pop culture and fandom in the lives of local pop culture enthusiasts. Existing fandom studies focus on sports, religion, or politics whereas most media-based pop culture research involves niche fandoms. This study is important because it broadens the scope …
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From Pop Culture to Nuclear Debate: The Impact of The Day After in Lawrence and Kansas City
… but the film clearly influenced the culture of the Cold War, magnifying nuclear fears and interest in the American public.
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Pop Culture and Protofeminism: The Novels of Jacqueline Susann and the Second Wave of the Women's Movement.
<p>Disagreement over the label "feminist" continues to elicit debate within the feminist movement and in society. Some contemporary feminists see protofeminism in Jacqueline Susann's novels.</p> <p>This work investigates the support Susann's novels offered to the second wave of the feminist …
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By Beauty Damned: Millennial Feminism and the Exploitation of Women's Empowerment in Pop Culture and Corporate Advertising
… advertising, and, by extension, the capitalist culture that exploits women, simultaneously sell feminism and more political content in what might be called an unholy union. Women’s magazines play a very strong role in setting positive standards and examples for women and supporting feminist …
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Fashion, Femininity, Frivolity: Marie Antoinette and the Rococco Legacy
… Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) has became a hugely popular subject in academic scholarship and pop culture alike. Her role as a fashion icon in eighteenth-century France has resulted in monumental influence on contemporary fashion and pop culture aimed at young women. However, the effects of …
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The Development of a Genre: Commencement Addresses Delivered by Popular Cultural Icons
… in conjunction with an analysis of speeches from pop culture icons to establish the defining characteristics of the genre. These characteristics are: 1) acknowledging the graduates, 2) creating identification, 3) presenting the world, and 4) instilling hope.
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The growth of cultural industry and the role of government : the case of Korea
The 21 st century is the age of culture. Cultural industry is rapidly internationalizing and a number of countries seeking a new source of economic growth are now turning their attention to cultural industries. In Asia, there is a phenomenon called the "Korean wave," which refers to the popularity …
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Experiments in inhumanity
… a specific white, middle class experience within pop-culture, making many references to music, television and film. In so doing it enters the debate as to how influential pop culture may be on teen behaviour, such as violence within relationships and peer groups. It throws elements like morose …
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Rich, Attractive People In Attractive Places Doing Attractive Things
… features many well-known figures from American pop culture including Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, Clark Gable, William Powell and Babe Paley. It traces the upward trajectory of Sunny's life from a modest childhood in 1920's Los Angeles to the heights of social success in the unforgiving …
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On Earth, As It Is
… and history and employ the filters of persona, pop-culture, social media, and letters. This manuscript is a culmination of the lessons in craft, theory, and literature based coursework offered by the noble Creative Writing Department at the University of Missouri—Kansas City. These poems draw on …
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Discourses and Notions of Identity in United States Foreign Policy: Israel and the 2014 Gaza War
… U.S. government documents, media articles, and pop culture platforms, this project identifies dominant narratives within the United States on Israel and the Palestinian territories. The complicated notions of identity that were discursively expressed within the United States on the 2014 …
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Queer and Transgender Identity in Kansas Zines
… symbols, and references to figures in queer pop culture.
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Emily Dickinson: 19th Century Poet in a 21st Century World
… they have played a role in making Dickinson a pop culture icon in the 21<sup>st</sup> century.</p>
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