Annotated bibliography on American Popular Culture
Mukerji, Chandra, and Michael Schudson. Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies. Berkeley: the University of California Press, 1991. Print.
The book aids the reader in understanding the various cultural dynamics that are involved in the American culture. The combination of the various schools of thoughts by various scholars helps the reader to understand the aspects of popular culture in different perspectives.
Franz, Kathleen, and Susan Smulyan. Major Problems in American Popular Culture: Documents and Essays. Australia: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2012. Print.
IPop News. "Pop Culture's War on Fraternities .com." iWantPop. N.p., 24 Feb. 2014. Web. 6 Mar. 2014. <http://iwantpop.com/3216/pop-cultures-war-on-fraternities/>.
The article is based on how the Animal House, which was mocked by many people instead of being, glorified. This is one of the many wars in the pop culture fraternities where various people in this field do not acknowledge the work of their fellow colleagues. The story in the comedy was about students in a fictional university who were trying to keep their fellow fraternity members from being kicked off campus. The issue that was portrayed in the comedy has played a major role in today’s popular culture because not only do fraternities hate each other in the Greek systems it leads to discrimination that does not portray a good picture when it comes to popular culture.
Animal house and other movies that came after the comedy on fraternities show that the fraternities in colleges are depicted as places when young boys and girls drink a lot of alcohol, smoke marijuana and cocaine among other hard drugs, and women are treated poorly. Therefore, the war on fraternities shows a different picture of the popular culture.
Fedorak, Shirley. Pop Culture: The Culture of Everyday Life. Toronto:the University of Toronto Press, 2009. Print.
The reader gets to understand that there is more to popular culture than the fans. For example, artistic expressions, movies, music and comedies. Politics and economic issues are parts of a person's daily life, and they should be incorporated when considering popular culture. The reader also understands that, in pop culture, there is diversity and different cultures vary from community to another although they are all in one place.
Danesi, Marcel. Popular Culture: Introductory Perspectives. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012. Print.
The reader understands and gets a clear picture of the timeline given by the author in the book. Through reading and understanding the timelines the students and the readers are able to trace back popular culture and understand its importance up to this period where everything has been digitized through the innovation of new technologies.
Berger, Arthur. "Media Tribes: Making Sense of Popular Culture, the Mass Media, and Everyday Life in America." ETC: A Review of General Semantics 70.3 (2013): p339- 347.9. Web. 6 Mar. 2014.
Critique
Reading through the article, the reader gets to understand how various individual beliefs vary based on their popular cultural beliefs. The views of people on popular culture are different and how people handle the impacts of the popular culture varies, as well. Therefore, by reading the article an individual can understand the impact and importance associated with popular culture.
Mathew, Schneider M. "Disaster Movies and the 'Peak Oil' Movement: Does Popular Culture Encourage Eco-Apocalyptic Beliefs in the United States?" Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature & Culture 7.3 (2013): p289-314.26. Web. 6 Mar. 2014.
Critique
According to the point of view of the author, it can be seen people have started to believe the fascism that is exhibited in the fictional movies. Although the film states that the characters and subject matter of the film are fictional, people go ahead to believe what the directors have to say. Therefore, by reading through the article a person or student can understand that peoples believe have been tarnished by the fascism of the films.
Goggins, Joyce. "Bad Economics: Hard Cash /Soft Culture." Tamara Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry 11.2 (2013): p11-25.. Web. 6 Mar. 2014.
Critique
The article gives a clear understanding that popular culture and economics are inseparable. For that reason, the student and the reader get a clear understanding of the concepts that are related to both popular culture and economics and how they are fused together. This is significant because many people separate the two issues not knowing that economics plays a significant role in popular culture.
Work cited
Berger, Arthur. "Media Tribes: Making Sense of Popular Culture, the Mass Media, and Everyday Life in America." ETC: A Review of General Semantics 70.3 (2013): p339- 347.9. Web. 6 Mar. 2014.
Danesi, Marcel. Popular Culture: Introductory Perspectives. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012. Print.
Fedorak, Shirley. Pop Culture: The Culture of Everyday Life. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. Print.
Franz, Kathleen, and Susan Smulyan. Major Problems in American Popular Culture: Documents and Essays. Australia: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2012. Print.
Goggins, Joyce. "Bad Economics: Hard Cash /Soft Culture." Tamara Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry 11.2 (2013): p11-25.. Web. 6 Mar. 2014.
IPop News. "Pop Culture's War on Fraternities .com." iWantPop. N.p., 24 Feb. 2014. Web. 6 Mar. 2014. <http://iwantpop.com/3216/pop-cultures-war-on-fraternities/>.
Mathew, Schneider M. "Disaster Movies and the 'Peak Oil' Movement: Does Popular Culture Encourage Eco-Apocalyptic Beliefs in the United States?" Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature & Culture 7.3 (2013): p289-314.26. Web. 6 Mar. 2014.
Mukerji, Chandra, and Michael Schudson. Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Print.
