Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chad A. Barbour
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Theoretical Consideration ◽  
Visual Rhetoric ◽  
American Culture ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
Unique Nature ◽  
And Control

The introduction discusses the connection between Native activism and popular culture as an entry into considering the recurring trope of playing Indian in American culture, especially focusing on comics. Comics provide a representative body of work for American popular culture, demonstrating how playing Indian circulates and is transmitted throughout American culture. A theoretical consideration of visual rhetoric, including Charles Peirce's semiotics, helps establish the unique nature of playing Indian in comics because of the visual nature of the medium. A consideration of whiteness and control of racial identity illustrates the contradictory dynamic of playing Indian.

scholarly journals Care, longing, and control

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Wallenius-Korkalo
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Television Show ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Political Studies ◽  
And Control

This article analyses representations of Conservative Laestadianism in contemporary Finnish and Finnish-American popular culture. Drawing from political studies, religious studies and cultural studies, the article sheds light on the ways in which Conservative Laestadianism is present in societal debate and in the cultural imagination. Focusing on religious corporeality, the article scrutinises the embodied practices of Conservative Laestadianism and the ways in which the representations participate in making sense of gender, sexuality, and power in religious communities. Contemporary understandings in popular culture are revealed through the detailed analysis of four cultural products of different genres depicting Conservative Laestadianism: a film entitled Kielletty hedelmä (Forbidden Fruit, 2009), a novel entitled We Sinners (2012), a reality television show entitled Iholla (On the Skin, 2013), and a play entitled Taivaslaulu (Heavensong, 2015). As a synthesis of the representations of Conservative Laestadianism, the article presents a dynamic triad of care, longing, and control. Furthermore, the article raises questions about the potential of popular culture in calling for a dialogue between Conservative Laestadianism and society at large.

scholarly journals Nostalgia for Crisis: Representing Revolution in North American Popular Culture

eTopia ◽  
2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Truman
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ideal State ◽  
Political Realities

In contemporary North America we no longer have revolutions; instead we have nostalgia for revolution. Benjamin Arditi’s Politics on the Edges of Liberalism argues that the continued presence of marginal radical politics in Western liberal democracies is evidence of our nostalgia for revolution and that we are mourning an ideal state of the past. I argue that another more widespread site of evidence for our nostalgia for revolution is the proliferation of popular artefacts branded with revolutionary iconography. As a symbol, revolution is omnipresent in North American culture. It is on our t-shirts, magazine covers, book jackets, advertising posters,and in our language and conversations describing new political realities and cultural contexts.We are collectors of revolutionary culture: we wear it, read it, buy it, and talk about it.

Trick, Treat, Transgress

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Danneil
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Television History ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
American Television ◽  
The Past ◽  
Culture History ◽  
The Simpsons

The Simpsons are not only the world’s most famous TV family; The Simpsons is, moreover, one of the longest-lasting animation programs in US-American television history. Over the course of the past thirty years, the yellow five from Springfield have grown into a wide-ranging phenomenon of American popular culture which still turns academics into fans and inspires fans to become academics. This book approaches a part of The Simpsons which research has largely left unnoticed, its Halloween Special Treehouse of Horror. The Simpsons revolutionized how we look through television at US-American culture and society, while Treehouse of Horror has had a crucial influence on how we re-member and re-consider popular-culture history by way of horror traditions. Altogether it will be shown how Matt Groening’s cartoon shows have painted a yellow archive of the digital age.

“You Know, Carol, Comedy Variety’s a Man’s Game”

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-81
Author(s):  
Kelly Kessler
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Television Industry ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
Small Screen

By the mid-sixties, dames of the Broadway and film musical were taking their much-deserved bows as variety’s small-screen headliners, but why? Changes were surely occurring everywhere: the small screen, the Broadway stage, the form of the musical book, and in the American culture at large. This chapter contextualizes the rise of crossover stars like Carol Burnett, Carol Channing, Pearl Bailey, Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, and Leslie Uggams, and positions their ascent within larger theatrical, televisual, and cultural contexts. It asks how they and their television appearances differ from the less prominent women of the earlier television era and how changes occurring in Shubert Alley and Hollywood helped to open up this space for the dames of Broadway. Ultimately this chapter addresses why and how television welcomed these divas and how this new embrace spoke to earlier and emergent norms of American popular culture, the musical, and a maturing television industry.

Conclusion

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chad A. Barbour
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
National Identity ◽  
American Culture ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
Captain America ◽  
The City

The conclusion considers the power and persistence of playing Indian in American culture. From Daniel Boone to Captain America, from the frontiersman to the superhero, from the frontier to the city, playing Indian maintains a powerful presence in American popular culture, reflecting and shaping perceptions of race, gender, and national identity.

scholarly journals Witchcraft and Women’s Spaces; A cultural Materialism Study of John Updike’s The Witches of Eastwick

2018 ◽  
Vol 215 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-158
Author(s):  
Assist.Prof. Dr. Azhar Noori Fejer
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Cultural Materialism ◽  
John Updike ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
The Core ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Modern Image

    Witch stories are part of American popular culture, and this culture is extremely influenced by a continuing reliance on its past. The modern obsession of Americans with witches, whether real or metaphorical, is related to politics especially when it came to issues of gender politics. This article exposes a modern image of the female character seen from a male author point of view. John Updike, influenced by the changes that happened to women within second wave of feminism, attempted to write The Witches of Eastwick (1984). Actually, he presented women who did have a sort of careers. His witches are professional active and dynamic. What do witches stand for in American Culture? Why did Updike choose to write about women? Why were these females witches and not ordinary women? This is the core discussion of the present study.

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