popular-culture

Through celebrity photos, posters, letters, costumes and props, collectors can "get away from reality," as they relive great moments in entertainment, says Neil Roberts, head of Christie's popular-culture department in London.

Memorabilia Mania Margaret Studer 2011

The Glock can even take its place among "classic" popular-culture gun styles — along with the Uzi, AK47, Thompson submachine gun and Colt 45, said Robert Thompson, a professor at Syracuse University.

Rampage Gun's Reputation Built on Style, Ease of Use Gary Fields 2011

A longtime penciller (the person who draws the figures that'll be colored in) for "Spiderman," "Mortal Kombat," "Nightmare on Elm Street," and other comics, Rolo (below with Lofton) knows his way around the industry and told CDC scientists that the world's largest popular-culture convention was the place to be.

Stephanie Woodard: Wham! Pow! The CDC Goes to Comic-Con Stephanie Woodard 2010

In this reading, porn is “a fictional, fantastical, even allegorical realm,” as the cultural critic Laura Kipnis described it in the mid-1990s — “mythological and hyperbolic” rather than realistic, and experienced not as a form of intercourse but as a “popular-culture genre,” like true crime or science fiction.

Is Pornography Adultery? 2008

In this reading, porn is “a fictional, fantastical, even allegorical realm,” as the cultural critic Laura Kipnis described it in the mid-1990s — “mythological and hyperbolic” rather than realistic, and experienced not as a form of intercourse but as a “popular-culture genre,” like true crime or science fiction.

Is Pornography Adultery? 2008

Cruel woman, to so callously shatter the hopes of a thousand potential thesis-writers and popular-culture respectability-grubbers!

Eco chamber: Is your favorite crime series a closed text? Peter Rozovsky 2010

I think the “voting” on that show has contributed to a popular-culture concept of voting in which the point of casting a vote is to choose the coolest and most popular contestant, rather than the candidate who is actually fit, in terms of competence and substance, to do the job.

The election of 2008: not listening to Cassandra 2010

In this reading, porn is “a fictional, fantastical, even allegorical realm,” as the cultural critic Laura Kipnis described it in the mid-1990s — “mythological and hyperbolic” rather than realistic, and experienced not as a form of intercourse but as a “popular-culture genre,” like true crime or science fiction.

Is Pornography Adultery? 2008

I was once given a fascinating postmodern analysis of Tommy Bartlett's Robot World, a popular-culture master's thesis, which tried to make sense of the jumbled juxtaposition of scientific and entertainment exhibits having the form, but not the spirit, of a science museum.

Making Light: Open thread 134 2010

But I think it's time for those who study popular culture to wake up and smell the Starbucks (popular-culture reference intended): popular culture is not popular!

Dr. Jim Taylor: Popular Culture: We Are What We Consume 2009