Popular Culture

Intuitive Action and Popular Culture in Trump’s Alternative Facts Age

Mehmet Evren Eken • Apr 20 2017 • Articles

As the exceptional American follows its path intuitively without any need to draw on agreed upon facts, guns can be drawn upon alternative facts driven by intuitive knowledge.

Raj Kapoor and India’s Foremost Cinematic Soft Power Breakthrough

Anubhav Roy • Jan 23 2017 • Articles

Soft power has fast matured into a sine qua non of international political conduct. Awara inadvertently became soft power, facilitating Soviet trust of India.

Mainstream Film and the Middle East

Patricia Sohn • Jan 21 2017 • Articles

A recent trend in film-making is bringing to Western audiences a more grounded Middle East.

The Memes of Our Lives, or How the Internet Shapes Reality in the Current Year

Sergey Armeyskov • Jan 19 2017 • Articles

Memes are much more than just funny (or not) pictures and gifs flooding the Internet every day. They are strange occasions of synchronicity.

What Can We Learn About Resilience from ‘Breaking Bad’?

Kyle Grayson • Jan 13 2017 • Articles

‘Breaking Bad’ potentially disrupts how we conceptualize resilience by opening up thinking space to consider who has the right (or opportunity) to be resilient.

Pop Culture and Latin America’s Conflicts

W. Alejandro Sanchez • Dec 3 2016 • Articles

Militaries and police forces can win wars, but the television and cinematographic industries are critical components that will determine whether or not they will be remembered as heroes.

Amazon, American, or Israeli? The Pitfalls of ‘UN-iversalising’ Wonder Woman

Robert A. Saunders • Oct 30 2016 • Articles

There is no shortage of reasons why the choice of Wonder Woman as Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls is a dangerous one for the UN.

An Exploration into Queerness and Race in Contemporary Comics

Rudy Loewe • Oct 12 2016 • Articles

Having queer characters in works, even when the narrative is not specifically about being queer, is crucial.

Commercial(ized) Nationalism on Display at the Olympics

Robert A. Saunders • Aug 23 2016 • Articles

Overseas corporations are taking an increasingly important role in telling Americans exactly who they are, as in the case of several ads broadcast during the Olympics.

The Audience in Popular Culture and World Politics

Louise Pears • Jun 25 2016 • Articles

Paying attention to the way that meaning is negotiated can contribute to our understanding of the relationship between popular culture and world politics.

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