Homework
Topic: Effect of Pop Culture in Promoting the Fashion Industry.
You'll want to narrow it down to a genre or a phenomenon. Are you interested in high fashion magazines? Representations of fashion among social influencers? Is your concern with how gender is represented? With how class is represented? You might consider Baudrillard's hyperrealism.
Directions:
This paper is a critical analysis of your topic in popular culture. The goal is to demonstrate what you have learned from studying popular culture by not simply "consuming" it but by interpreting it.
First, define your topic in pop culture clearly for your reader. Your topic might be: a musical genre, such as hip hop, or a specific song; a toy such as Beany Babies; gossip magazines, such as People; presidential blogging; a celebrity past or present; a style of fashion; a particular film; a TV sit-com; reality TV; a video game; home shopping; or some aspect of sports. Your interest may be current or historical - and the choice is yours as long as it is rationalized well. Your opening paragraph or two can be a direct thesis or they can have a creative "hook" to bring in your reader and introduce the subject. But the opening should explain the importance of the topic; and it should conclude with a clear thesis statement that tells the reader what the main point of your analysis will be.
Second, begin your analysis of the topic by doing the following:
Apply a theory or concept from your readings that helps you to interpret your subject. These theories and concepts include: Baudrillard's theory of hyper-reality, Lasn's manifesto of culture jamming, Stuart Hall's theory of encoding/decoding, Marxist theories of false consciousness, commodity fetishism, and alienation, Ritzer's theory of McDonaldization, etc.
Demonstrate the larger cultural lessons we can learn from your pop cultural artifact or phenomenon by looking at its message, form, and context. In particular, please explain how it promotes, reinforces, or challenges certain dominant values in the United States or how it is a subject of debate in public discourse.
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
• The answer must be using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, typed, with one-inch margins on all sides.
• The response also includes a cover page containing the student's name, the title of the homework, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
• Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.