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by Jay Bildstein
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What is pop-culture? No doubt, various sociology texts have attempted to define the term. I will take a stab at deciphering its meaning. To begin with, pop-culture is an abbreviation of the term "popular culture." Defining this concept demands we understand its components.
In the context we are examining, "popular" signifies that a thing or person is in fashion or well liked by a significant portion of society, at a given point in time. That point in time being now. What is popular one year may well be out of fashion the next. "Culture" refers to the things a given group believes, how it behaves and what it tends to focus on.
Consequently, pop-culture refers to the things and people in society that are in fashion with a goodly portion of the population. This applies to such areas as music, art, literature, cinema, television, clothing, the Web, etc. Most painlessly, pop-culture embodies what's "in."
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by Meche S. A.
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A few years ago I heard that a release of Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past in graphic novel form had stirred up a lot of controversy; something about how a great classic should not be relegated to the lowly ranks of pop culture. While I am not the biggest fan of the graphic novel (for example, I don’t collect them or attend comic book conferences), I do like them. I think they can be an excellent vehicle for introducing audiences to both literature and history, and a good tool for sparking interest in these topics. Perhaps more than anything else, I have a fondness for graphic novels since they were a part of my childhood. In my childhood home in Mexico, one thing we always had in abundance were reading materials. We had everything from comic books of various different kinds (Wonder Woman, The Spirit, La familia Burrón), novels, magazines, newspapers and reference books. Children’s books ranged from standard fairy tales to stories where two young sisters rescued a herd of sheep from a blizzard, becoming their town’s heroines. Write a comment |
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by Jay Bildstein
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The other day I'm having a rambling conversation with a friend. You know, those talks where you start on one topic only to find yourself blabbing about something completely different; the kind of chat where one minute you're discussing a movie and the next you're debating what brand of hotdog has the more robust flavor.
Anyway, we're jabbering on. I say something and my friend begins to respond with, "In reality ..." Before he can finish his sentence I am interrupting him. "In reality," I repeat with mock indignation. "In reality!" What on earth does "in reality" mean? "Whose reality?" I demand, half-jokingly.
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