America, Pop Culture “Americans are surely the maestros of reappropriation” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 September 2017 …Americans are surely the maestros of reappropriation. Conservatives turned the phrase “vast right-wing conspiracy”...
Entertainment, Movies, Pop Culture, Television “Superhero team-building is a venerable comic-book practice, one that flourished in the ’60s and ’70s…more or less contemporaneously with the first voyages of the Starship Enterprise” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 September 2016 Nothing in popular culture, or in consumer capitalism, is ever really new. Superhero team-building...
Pop Culture “The survivor — or pop culture’s fantasy of her — now cuts a distinctive silhouette: She’s damaged, but never so much as to be a figure of pity or revulsion; her wound makes her interesting, even alluring” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 July 2016 The survivor — or pop culture’s fantasy of her — now cuts a distinctive...
Hip-Hop, Music, Pop Culture “Minaj may have had a fair amount of influence over the fact that pop stars are constantly telling us they’re bosses…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 November 2015 Minaj may have had a fair amount of influence over the fact that pop...
Pop Culture, Sex “…American culture offers little to model healthy sexual encounters beyond the threshold of consent” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 February 2015 On college campuses and elsewhere, not everyone fully understands and embraces the importance of...
Pop Culture “…bemoaning the general immaturity of contemporary culture would be as obtuse as declaring it the coolest thing ever” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 December 2014 …bemoaning the general immaturity of contemporary culture would be as obtuse as declaring it...
America, Pop Culture “…to be an American adult has always been to be a symbolic figure in someone else’s coming-of-age story” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 November 2014 …we can see that to be an American adult has always been to be...
Pop Culture “American pop culture leaves little room for mixed feelings, thereby inciting mixed feelings every step of the way” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 July 2014 American pop culture leaves little room for mixed feelings, thereby inciting mixed feelings every...