Popular Culture
Pop Culture Popular Culture _________________________________________ Read more to find out….. Examples where we can identify pop culture ____________________________________ Pop Culture
This weekend, did you…. Jog while listening to a IPOD? Listen to music on your radio? Watch TV? Read a newspaper? Eat a McDonald’s hamburger? Go to a bar or movie? Shop at the mall? Participate in a sport activity? If so, you did the things that most people in Western societies do with their free time….these are examples of popular culture.
Discussion What were particular pastimes of when YOU were younger?....but are not so popular now…..
Popular Culture Defined ________________________________________________________________________ Pop Culture
Cultures Defined Popular Culture __________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ High Culture Folk Culture
What does Popular Culture tell us? ________________________________________________________________________________________________
Popular Culture Characteristics __________________________________________ Pop Culture
Television Hub of popular culture. ____________________________________________ ______________________________________________
Television ________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Top 10 Click here to see the Top Syndicated TV Shows Click here to see the Top Broadcast TV Shows Click here to see the Top Cable TV Shows
Why is Television So Popular? ______________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Findings of Kubey & Csikszentmihalyi ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________
Discussion: Subject Television” Has watching TV made life better or worse for us in the United States?
TV Turn Off Week
Theme & Amusement Parks Traditional amusement parks vs today’s theme parks.
Newspapers, Magazines and Books ________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ Why do people read a newspaper? Magazine? Book?
Films ______________________________________
Films Top 10 Movies of All-Time Current Box Office Hits All Time Hits 1929: ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1998: 23,000 walk-in theaters and 800 drive-ins. Drive-in tour History of drive-in
____________________ Films Video rentals .... _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ __________________________________________________________________________
What are some popular activities that Americans do in their leisure time? U. S. MTSU
Discussion: Subject: “Pop culture differences” What is popular in one area may not be popular in another…based on the ‘culture’ of the area. Discuss what is popular in the US and why Discuss something that may only be pop culture in the south as opposed to the north or vice versa