Why Study Popular Culture
This man popularized the Fejee Mermaid
PT Barnum
Texts referring to other texts
Intertextuality
What Colorado town inspired Main Street USA at Disneyland?
This event might serve as a yearly ritualistic spectacle
The Super Bowl
This family is a quintessential example of how manufactured presentation of self results in simulation
Kardashians
This can either be a particular example of popular culture or a basic genre of popular culture
Artifact
This term is used to refer to anything that is imitated and repeated across culture
Meme
Baudrillard might use what term to describe the similarities between Main Street USA at Disneyland and the town that inspired it?
Hyperreal Simulation
This figure was a priest of Diana who protected the woods of Nemi
Rex Nemorensis
This individual is the reigning Rex Nemorensis
Jalen Hurts
Popular culture gives us the symbolic resources and strategies for addressing and resolving the given historical and personal problems individuals and collectives face. This can be thought of as what?
The three layers of Shifman's meme typology
Form, content, and stance
Debord used what term to describe a worldview in which commodified images alter cultural expectations and social relations
The spectacle
Baseball players are most similar to what animal?
Birds
This player was involved in an infamous trade during the Great Era of baseball
Babe Ruth
This term refers to the business and media context in which popular culture emerges
Media Ecology
As opposed to denotative, this term refers to the deeper ideological meanings embedded beneath the surface of popular culture
Connotative
Double Jeopardy!
This Supreme Court case in 1948 ended the vertical integration model of Hollywood studios
The "texture" of baseball evokes what type of landscape?
Farm/agrarian
What amusement park transformed early American leisure culture?
Coney Island
One might argue that Stranger Things inspires this type of nostalgia, which is meant to examine the core causes of contemporary issues
Reflective Nostalgia
A meme that serves to establish, prolong, or discontinue communication is defined as what by Shifman
Phatic
An interview with a celebrity might function as what?
A paratext
The throwing motion of baseball is similar to what pre-modern skill?
The throwing of a spear
The use of a VR headset or an ARG can be thought of as vehicles for exploring what type of space?
Hyperreal space/hyperreality