Sentences with phrase «popular culture has»

Between Amazon threatening to use drones to deliver packages, to etiquette questions about what to do when you find a fallen drone, the tech set and popular culture has become obsessed with the flying machines.

Popular culture has all but forgotten about the benefits of cash value whole life insurance.

[1] Over the past few years Canadian popular culture has embraced www.facebook.com («Facebook»), a social networking website, as a means by which to reveal one's personal life to other members of the community — one's «Facebook friends».

At least in South Carolina, the popular culture has simply changed faster than the legal culture.

And popular culture has always loved hype and doom.

It seems too that the focus on Africa brings with it new notions of a soldier identity that is not necessarily styled along the images seen in Hollywood movies but more along the lines of how this form of popular culture has influenced child soldiers» choice of dress — which is usually a combination of ill - fitting army pants with popular animated characters t - shirts.

However, most often these perceptions originate from subcultures that represent perspectives with which the mainstream popular culture has only limited familiarity.

This incessant deluge of popular culture has been hand - drawn in fluorescent colors and black lines with consummate assurance by Mr. Pruitt's studio assistants.

Alongside this is a personal and insightful introduction by Fryer's long - term advisor Duncan Ward, and an essay by Amanda Harlech, both of which underline that Fryer's art works on multiple levels, and that it is conscious of its uniqueness and validity: «These works arrive at a time when little art has the tonic to shock and popular culture has seen to the dismantling of the avant - garde and the experimental in all it's sub sects... Paul Fryer senses the storm, and unfurls a kite so that we can connect with it.»

To view McCann's paintings is to understand that popular culture has long been a part of the language of painting.

Starr's longstanding interest in the exploration of internality through the products of popular culture has been chided in the past.

It added to the strong obsession popular culture has with zombies and spawned a string of movies that have been steady box office earners despite not staying particularly true to the source material.

Unfortunately, popular culture has many business owners convinced that a lot of money will solve all their problems.

omance soars on wings of war After the success of The Greatest Generation and Saving Private Ryan, popular culture has savored stories of the war that split the world and the 20th century.

Reaching out to those committed to the older culture, the book, he writes, «is an old - fashioned work of persuasion, that ultimately aims to convince of one thing: that popular culture has, on average, grown more complex and intellectually challenging over the last thirty years.»

fashioned work of persuasion, that ultimately aims to convince of one thing: that popular culture has, on average, grown more complex and intellectually challenging over the last thirty years.»

Popular culture has been used for decades to help teach history and other topics.

Blade isn't just some marginal, pre-boom scrap from the 20th - century superhero film heap, though it does seem that popular culture has discarded black - produced superhero flicks in favor of the big - budget, contemporary releases.

With the preponderance of vampires in popular culture has come the preponderance of new and fascinating takes on the mythology of the monster.

For that matter, arguably no one in popular culture has earned the right to speak out about blacks in the American mainstream more than Cosby.

Zoolander and the gang have mostly ossified into pullstring See»n Says, though to encore the greatest hits of a fifteen - year - old movie whose footprint on popular culture has long since dissipated is to masturbate, really, and the celebrity cameos — about the same number as the previous film's, but much more elaborately integrated this time around — feel no less onanistic.

That his nickname is thought to originate from a copy of Frederick Forsyth's novel «The Day of the Jackal» is apt, as popular culture has leapt upon him as a subject in everything from Robert Ludlum's Bourne Trilogy (as seen in the TV adaptations, but not the films) to comedic television series Whoops Apocalypse (with Seinfeld «s Michael Richards satirising his public persona).

Popular culture has so readily embraced the archetypes of Felix and Oscar, the two opposites who don't attract but have to get along, that there almost isn't any point repeating the reasons for their appeal.

In recent years, popular culture has embraced the idea of the TV date night: the idea that binge watching a new show together is the height of romance.

But the rise of the selfie in popular culture has come with many critics, too.

As such, there's demand for better gadgets, ones that make women feel a little less bovine and a little more like the having - it - all queens that popular culture has told them they can be.

But its widespread use in popular culture has contributed to Matthew's identity as a name well - loved by parents for several generations.

While our popular culture has not caught up — yet — the queer theorists increasingly calling the shots at the elite level already agree with Foucault on this point.

The popular culture lead the way, because the church that has the mind of God ignored the mind of God, because it stuck to the Bible and Christian tradition, so God moved the popular culture... so the popular culture has the mind of God... no, that's too far.

At the same time, popular culture has become ugly, superficial, and stultifying.

The key organs of popular culture have declared dissenting views on sexuality and marriage unfit for polite conversation, setting off occasional high - profile witch hunts against dissenters and enabling an environment of intimidation well beyond those.

Popular culture would be considerably poorer without Darth Vader and Homer Simpson.

In reality, people can't be read as easily as popular culture would have us believe.

Series host David Steinberg interviews the dryly funny comics whose wickedly smart, subversive observations and twisted takes on the absurdities of everyday life and popular culture have made them household names.

His interest for landscape and popular culture have remained constant and so has his love for sensuous colors, «transforming the ordinary» in the manner of Pierre Bonnard, «where the color becomes the subject».

By placing the viewer in the position of voyeur, Tracey Snelling calls attention to the ways in which film noir and other elements of popular culture have shaped our shared consciousness.

Recollections of family members and common household mementos of Puerto Rican popular culture have inspired the emergent Chicago - based artist to create this body of work addressing the hybridization of cultural identity in new migrant generations of Puerto Ricans.

This exhibition and extensive catalogue will present new insight into the artist's life, his influences, and the impact American popular culture had on his art and vice-versa.

Smithson's keen interest in all facets of popular culture would, in his later years, drive his investigations of the radical edge of mainstream culture as well as the white box of the gallery space.

In real life and in popular culture we have a few individuals who time and time again land exceptionally fascinating jobs.

Not exact matches

Univision has been aggressively expanding beyond its Spanish - language roots for the past year or so, launching a news website called Fusion as well as acquiring web properties such as the African - American culture site The Root and the popular humor site The Onion.

But what he couldn't have known is that riff would become a part of popular culture, inspiring stadium chants like this:

«There's a fine line between brand fatigue, and the idea that a brand has really and truly penetrated the culture,» says Robert Thompson, a professor at Syracuse University and director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Cculture,» says Robert Thompson, a professor at Syracuse University and director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular CultureCulture.

In the 31 years since the Walkman was introduced, it has sold about 220 million units and changed the way people interact with their music — it became such an important part of popular culture that it even earned a spot in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1986.

Where economic elites in previous centuries may have used social Darwinism and even religion to explain away economic inequality, from the 1950s on economic elites have intentionally and strategically spread the gospel of Economics 101 throughout American political and popular culture in a similar way.

We specialize in tabletop games, video games, comic books, cosplay, all the sort of emerging things that really weren't anything when I first started in this business, but now they've become so popular in mainstream culture.

Male characters have some sexually fluid representation «Jane The Virgin,» for example, has a male character, Adam, who is bisexual) but, generally, male figures in popular culture are relegated to one of two binaries: 100 % straight or 100 % gay.

Frequent public appearances, Xi - themed books and artwork, and frequent references to «Papa Xi» in Chinese media and popular culture show how closely the leader has tied Communist Party rule to his own individual image and power.

South Korea's growing influence on popular culture, from beauty products to viral musical hits like «Gangnam Style,» has put the country on the world map.

Connor Schell, executive producer of ESPN Films, told reporters on a conference call earlier this week that, when he first discussed the project that became Made in America with the director Edelman more than two years ago, they had no idea to what extent the Simpson trial would reassert itself into American popular culture after two decades — not to mention the surge in popularity of the true crime genre, as seen recently with documentary series like Netflix's Making a Murderer and HBO's The Jinx.