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What’s the difference between the Yes and

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Popular Culture

• includes fashion fads, blockbuster movies, video games, TV shows, and viral videos

• Also includes the way we include pop culture products and experiences in our daily lives.

Pop Culture

• Tries to appeal to as large an audience as possible

• Tends to preserve “status quo” rather than challenge it

• Views on social trends, roles of women, minority groups etc are influenced by the dominant social, political, and economic system

Pop Culture

• Analysis of pop culture reveal beliefs, myths, fears, desires, hopes of dominant North American culture

Pop Culture

• TV shoes have become a kind of testing ground for exploring controversial topics:

• eg/ 1997 Ellen first openly gay lead on a TV series. Then in 1998 came Will and Grace

Pop Culture

• By looking at patterns, values, and ideologies in pop culture we can take the pulse of society

• eg/ Have a look at this clip from the 1960s TV show “All in the Family”

Pop Culture

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• Is Canadian pop culture different than American pop culture? If so how?

• Find an example of a pop song from the 50s or 60s and compare it to a pop song today. How are they different and what can you learn about the cultures that produced them?