Mulholland Drive

2002 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha P. Nochimson
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
David Lynch ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Mulholland Drive ◽  
Insight Into

But what does David Lynch really think of Hollywood? Mulholland Drive reveals both his passionate, radiant belief in the rich possibilities of American popular culture and his dark insight into its capacity to destroy its best and brightest. Everything hinges on one moment in which the destinies of seemingly disparate people join in an irreversible trajectory. Double identities, shifts in time and space, music, and the fertile darkness of the unknown all serve as elements by means of which Lynch conveys his vision.

scholarly journals THE TRANSNATIONAL SUCCESS OF COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Ekawati Marhaenny Dukut
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
Magazine Advertisement ◽  
Transnational Culture ◽  
Global Values ◽  
The U.S

Studying about an American popular culture product such as the Cosmopolitan magazine for American Studies’ scholars can no longer be framed in studying how it is operated within the U.S. only. Instead, a look at how it is being transferred across nation’s borders and how it is regulated in other nations become a concern also to scholars. Time and space is no longer a border for a world that is transnational, so global values that are being sold in the magazine’s advertisements are being made continually popular by inserting local ideas. How has Cosmopolitan successfully achieved its globality? The following article discusses on the transnational culture that Cosmopolitan and its magazine advertisement brings and howit has taken in the local to support the global.Key words: Cosmopolitan, Global, Local, Transnational, Popular culture

Public Service Motivation in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Mastracci
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Service Motivation ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Buffy The Vampire Slayer ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
Public Servant ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual

In this paper, the author examines public service as depicted in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS). First, she shows how slaying meets the economist’s definition of a public good, using the BtVS episode “Flooded” (6.04). Second, she discusses public service motivation (PSM) to determine whether or not Buffy, a public servant, operates from a public service ethic. Relying on established measures and evidence from shooting scripts and episode transcripts, the author concludes Buffy is a public servant motivated by a public service ethic. In this way, BtVS informs scholarship on public service by broadening the concept of PSM beyond the public sector; prompting one to wonder whether it is located in a sector, an occupation, or in the individual. These conclusions allow the author to situate Buffy alongside other idealized public servants in American popular culture.

Publishing in Bible and American Popular Culture

2020 ◽  
pp. 536-552
Author(s):  
Robert Paul Seesengood
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Scholarship ◽  
Future Work

This essay is an examination of scholarship on the Bible and (American) popular culture. It reviews the history and assumptions of cultural studies and maps how this body of work influenced biblical scholarship after 1990. It surveys an array of examples of scholarship on the Bible and popular culture and concludes with some suggestions for future work. Specifically, this essay asks the following: How has interest in Bible and popular culture affected academic publishing? How did these trends emerge, and what assumptions prompt them? What new journals or series or reference works have appeared that are specifically devoted to this broad topic, and what are some ways that the Bible and popular culture have been treated therein?

The Rapture in American Imagination

2020 ◽  
pp. 261-275
Author(s):  
Tina Pippin
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Television Film ◽  
Second Coming

The Rapture is the sudden and hoped for event of the second coming of Jesus Christ in the clouds to raise true Christian believers to heaven. American popular culture has played with this scenario in a variety of genres (e.g., television, film, novels), most often in a satirical way. From the faith perspective, the Rapture is a major theme in Christian fiction (the Left Behind series) and follows a timeline of political and historical events. Representations of the Rapture in popular culture often reflect the current political climate and the psychological anxiety, isolation, and sense of persecution of believers.

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