Pop Culture Place to Go To

For the  pop culture place to go, to be an  "effective" American citizen.  Would be Universal Studios Theme Park, in Orlando, Florida.  This park has rides and attractions on popular culture TV shows, and movies.

Intertextuality in Pop Culture

According to your notes from class lecture the word intertextual means "The complex interrelationship between a text [book, movie, artifact, and idea] and other texts. Taken as a basis."

Here is a first example of intertextuality

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The reason this an example of intertextuality is because it is combing Nintendo characters such as Mario, and Donkey Kong with Monopoly board game.

Here is an another example of intertextuality


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The reason this is intertexutality is because this video game is combing,  a video game from Nintendo called, Tetris Attack/Puzzle League with Pokemon.  

Coolness

The articles that we read was Chuck Klosterman's article on coolness called, " The Lady or the Tiger."  Another article we read was Alissa Quart was the discussion about coolness on the TV show "Frontline"    The articles about coolness are different, however both Chuck and Alissa have the same topic to talk about being cool, and coolness.  Here are some reasons why the articles are different.
For starters, Chuck talks about food as being cool.  He mentions ads on TV about different types of cereal that are not really meant for children.  Compared to Allissa Quart she does not mentions cereal to be cool and to fit in.  She mentions the Internet, and websites, about being cool compared to Klosterman.  Chuck does not mention the Internet or websites to be cool.
Chuck  has a lot of theories about coolness.  Here are a list of his theories about trending, or being cool in society.  "Calculated Adult Coolness", "Stream teen coolness", and
"aging hipster default coolness."  Chuck defines the "calculated adult coolness" as this, "I'm referring to the kind of coolness that generally applies to people between the ages of nineteen and thirty-six."  Chuck also says that "Mainstream teen coolness" and "aging hipster default coolness" has a different definition.  "Both of which reflect an opposing (and sort of pathetic) consumer aesthetic."  Where as Quart does not mentions these theories about coolness, and has no definition about the theories of being cool.  In both of the article both Chuck Klosterman and Allysia Quart do mentions the word "aesthetic" in the literature about coolness.

Violence

The first article about violence is "APA Congressional Testimony on Media Violence and Children"  and the movie we watched the Mean World Syndrome.  Here are some reasons why these two types of media are the same.  In the article is has statistics and numbers about violence. APA article and the movie mentions the word "desensitize" or the word desensitization for their points of views on violence in the media. 
The APA testimony and the Mean World Syndrome are different is that, the APA testimony does not mentions stereotypes in TV.  The APA article does not mentions race and violence.  Unlike the Mean World Syndrome movie it shows racial violence and stereotypes portals in the media.  The APA article has a congressional hearing on violence, while the movie does not have a congressional hearing about violence. Mean World Syndrome were doing scientific experiment called "Channel surfing" to find any violence on TV.  Whereas the APA did not do any experiments about violence on TV.