Popular Culture

Breastfeeding, Popular Culture and Body Politics

Fabio Parasecoli | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Beyonce, Popular Culture, Body Politics, Breastfeeding, Parenting, Attachment Parenting, Parents News

It is not surprising that such a public display of breastfeeding cannot find its place in the mainstream, whether printed on the cover of a major magazine or performed by a global celebrity.

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Battle Royale Fans -- Enough Already!

Mark Yzaguirre | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Entertainment, Popular Culture, Film, Battle Royale, Movies, The Hunger Games, HUnger Games, Entertainment News

It is a fallacy to claim that the existence of Battle Royale somehow makes a difference as to whether The Hunger Games is worth reading or watching. These things are independent of one another.

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The Hunger Games and the Politics of Food

Fabio Parasecoli | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Hunger, Food Systems, Dystopia, Food Politics, Food, Popular Culture, HUnger Games, Film, Science Fiction, Culture News

In a consumer society where alternative food networks and associations have been built on the premise that we can change the food system one meal at the time and that eating is an agricultural act, Katniss' adventures remind us that, after all, we are poachers in somebody else's territory.

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Is This the Future of American Values?

Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Parenting, Media, Popular Culture, Values, Parents News

Am I optimistic about future generations of our children? It all depends on whether parents are ready to step up and do what's best for their children.

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How to Teach Children to Lose by Winning

Peter Block | Posted 02.07.2012

Whether playing or watching sports, the name of the game is the same: who wins?

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Shakespeare, Popular Culture And Religiously Motivated Censorship

Michael Gilmour | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Popular Culture, Shakespeare, Censorship, Christianity, Religion News

Shakespeare captures such things as the joys of romantic love, religious hypocrisy, existential despair, and fear of the grave. He teaches us what it means to be human.

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Why Is Lisbeth Salander Naked?

Robin S. Rosenberg, Ph.D. | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Pornification, Objectification of Women, Popular Culture, Steig Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Redroom, Rooney Mara, Women News

Salander's character, and her appeal to readers, isn't about sex. It's about her resilience in the face of adversity -- significant adversity. It's about her persistent and dogged will to see justice done.

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The Fall of JoePa and a Return to Common Sense

Peter Block | Posted 01.11.2012

Every community has many more things to be proud of than a young person's ability to run, jump, throw, and catch. Sport does not build character, it puts character at risk. Sport is just fun.

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An Open Letter to Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and 7th Avenue

Seth Matlins | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Self-Esteem, Madison Avenue, Society, Fashion Industry, Hollywood, Popular Culture, Body Image, Media News

Dear All: I've got a 6 year-old daughter, and I'm worried for her health and happiness, because of what you're doing, and what you won't do.

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R.I.P. REM: What We Really Lose

Christopher R. Smit, Ph.D. | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Art, Record Industry, Paste Magazine, Consciousness, U2, Cultural-Consciousness, Rem, Greg Cott, Popular Culture, Indie, Jim Cullen, Bruce Springsteen, Culture News

REM's art is significant because its politics, visions and worldview became part of the social imaginary, part of our collective imagination. They helped millions of us see the world differently.

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Five Rules: So Your Children Get Your Messages Loud and Clear

Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Messages, Popular Culture, Parenting, Children, Parents News

Sending healthy messages to your children is also not a part-time, "I'll do it when I feel like it" sort of thing. The reality is that your children are being bombarded by messages from other sources, namely popular culture, that are truly unhealthy.

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'Sgt. Pepper's' Artist Talks Art, Pop Culture & Professional Wrestling

Constantin Bjerke | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Exhibition, 1960s, Wrestling, Sgt Pepper, Pop Art, Craft, Gx Gallery, 60's, Andy Warhol, Art, Kendo Nagasaki, crane.tv, Beatles, Artist, Popular Culture, Celebrity, Kate Moss, Damien Hirst, Sir Peter Blake, Video, Arts News

Defined as the 'Andy before Warhol', Sir Peter Blake is an icon in pop-art. While he's best known for designing the cover for The Beatles' album Sgt. ...

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House Invasion: How Club Music Sneaked Into Mainstream Pop

HuffingtonPost.com | Kia Makarechi | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Kesha, Kanye West, Britney Spears, Katy Perry, House Music, Webster Hall, Raves, Lady GaGa, Winter Music Conference, Music, Pop Music, Video, Electronic Music, Jay-Z, Music Industry, Popular Culture, Edm, Culture News

On a July night, the ground at New York's always-crowded, never-clean Webster Hall was quite literally shaking under the bass pouring out of the DJ's...

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Is Technology Stealing Our (Self) Identities?

Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Social Media, Popular Culture, Media, Technology, Facebook, Self-Identity, Technology News

One of the most powerful ways in which technology is altering self-identity is through the shift from being internally to externally driven.

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The Pleasures of Hidden Membership

James Block | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Rootlessness, American Psyche, Culture of Freedom, Mass Psychology, Popular Culture, Sense-of-Belonging, Consumer Psychology, Politics News

Americans have prided themselves on producing the most mobile society on record. Actually the pride is partly misplaced, for once our ancestors l...

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The Palin Borges Connection; or, What's History Got to Do With It?

Mark Axelrod | Posted 08.10.2011

Read More: Popular Culture, Literatujre, Comedy News

With all the commotion concerning Palin's alleged revisionist approach to Paul Revere, what has gone completely unnoticed is that her comment on Revere had more to say with Palin's admiration for the late Argentine fictionalist, Jorge Luis Borges, than anything else.

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WATCH: Pop Culture And Iconic Cartoons

Constantin Bjerke | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Snow White, Nazi, Balthus, All Visual Arts, 9/11, Visual, Art, Image, Boccioni, Alice in Wonderland, crane.tv, Wolfe Von Lenkievicz, Artist, Popular Culture, Disney, Pop, Morris, Cartoons, Arts News

"Death of the author," artist Wolfe von Lenkiewicz stresses, "does not mean death of responsibility," a point ...

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Elizabeth Taylor: Cleopatra of Vijayawada

Sunil Adam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, Elizabeth Taylor, Third World, Hyderabad, US Foreign Policy, American Culture, Popular Culture, Hollywood, Vijayawada, Entertainment News

The Hollywood legend was the ultimate symbol of America's cultural influence that percolated down to small towns far, far away. The film Cleopatra op...

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How To Raise Spoiled Brats

Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Popular Culture, Wealth, Money, Spoiled Children, Raising Children, Parenting, Parenting Advice, Fiscal Responsibility, Kids, Kids Fiscal Responsibility, Healthy Living News

In my consulting practice, I work with many high-net-worth families and am constantly amazed at how nonchalant (or even downright neglectful) the parents are in their children's fiscal education.

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Reality TV Is Not Reality

Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The Apprentice, The Bachelor, Reality TV, Simon Cowell, Survivor, Donald Trump, Wife Swap, Popular Culture, American Idol, The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Big Brother, Reality Television, Jersey Shore, Reality Tv Entertainment, American Culture, Culture, Television, Reality Tv American Culture, Healthy Living News

Reality TV promotes the worst values and qualities in people -- and disguises them all as entertainment. Reality TV makes heroic decidedly unheroic values, characters and behavior.

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Reviewing 2010's Pop Cultural Lessons

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reality Television, Reality TV, Clash of the Titans, Salt Lake Tribune, Angry Birds Game, Social Networking, Katy Perry, Fiction, Reality Shows, Documentary Film, Immigration, Pop Culture, Facebook, Sean P. Marks, Conan O'Brien, Government, Tea Party Movement, Television, Unemployment, Social Networks, Mark Zuckerberg, Popular Culture, Video Games, Vuvuzela, Tea Party, Vuvuzelas, American Pop Culture, Twitter, The Social Network, Reality Show, Documentaries, Team Coco, Tv, Aaron Sorkin, Banks, Documentary, Angry Birds, Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune, The Social Network Movie, Truth, Media News

As we bid farewell to another year, some pop culture critics are doing more than reflecting on trends gone by -- they're speculating about what it all means. Here, the best explanations.

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Upheaval at the Turn of the Millennium

Kenneth Kales | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Generations, Popular Culture, Society, Economics, American History, Industrial Age, Information Age, Impact News

The working people of this great nation are fighting with our hearts and souls to salvage what we can of an older Industrial Age society, and forging ...

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Capturing an Era In The Age of Music Photography

Ethan Russell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Rolling Stones, Beatles, The Who, American History, Music, Photography, Popular Culture, Ethan Russell, The Sixties, Arts News

Above: 1. The Beatles by Ethan Russell © Apple Records 2. The Who © Ethan Russell. Jerry Lee Lewis © Ethan Russell. "Please allow me to intro...

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Public Diplomacy, Sports, and the Waning Influence of American Popular Culture

John Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Soft Power, Popular Culture, Basketball, Baseball, American Idol, Public Diplomacy, Football, Soccer, World News

The prevalence of soccer as the universal sport suggests that "identifiably" American idols in the field of entertainment are not necessarily what the world prefers in our new millennium.

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Gratitude: "Get What You Get and Don't Get Upset"

Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Madonna, Popular Culture, Wall Street, Gratitude, Happiness, Ipad, Empathy, Materialism, Family, Healthy Living News

The notion of gratitude so relevant to all of us in this world where for many enough is never enough while many others don't have enough.

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