PopMeC research blog The US Representation in Popular Media and Culture
Author: Max Tretter Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg Download PDF version INTRODUCTION Originating in the United States, rap music and the culture of hip hop are closely connected with America.[1] As hip hop’s place of origin, the US has a lasting...
Author: Katerina Psilopoulou Newnham College, University of Cambridge Download PDF version Whenever European directors attempt to capture the essence of America, the result can be either grotesque or revelatory, especially during volatile times like the counterculture movement of the...
Download PDF version In popular culture, the term ‘Orwellian’ has come to be known as that which describes instances of the dystopic milieu in George Orwell’s final novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. This seminal text, which presents a vision of a...
Download PDF version POE: A COMPLICATED LIFE Edgar Allan Poe was a prolific horror and mystery writer who exerted significant influence over the horror genre. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1809, and died under very mysterious circumstances...
I’m tired of fighting it out here, I don’t have much idea of what it is to be Arab, but that’s what the family is always saying we are. I want to know what part of me is Arab. I...
Author: Edward Chamberlain University of Washington Tacoma Download PDF version In November 2015, the television sitcom Superstore debuted on the NBC network and quickly gained popularity, running for six seasons until March 2021. Showcasing the talented actress America Ferrera,...
Author: Thomas Britt George Mason University Download PDF version David Lynch and Mark Frost’s television series Twin Peaks (1990-1991) was a program that blended television genres and conventions in a way that no series had previously done. Twin Peaks is...
Count Leo Nikolayevitch Tolstoy lied. I did not know if all happy families resemble each other as I do not know any content families. In Lebanon during the war, however, all unhappy families were not unhappy in their own way....
Download PDF version On 18 November 1978, just over 900 people were killed on the remote settlement of The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project—informally known as Jonestown. Located in Guyana, Jonestown was the latest and most radical manifestation of insular...
Author: Felicia Cosey Jackson State University Download PDF version Horror filmmakers capitalize on the inevitable fear and dread that darkness elicits, from Alien’s (Scott 1979) Ripley walking down dark spaceship corridors to evade the monster, to Us’ (Peele 2019) Adelaide/Red...