BY: LIZZIE 7Z

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HOW DID POPULAR CULTURE
AFFECT SOCIAL SOCIETY AS WE KNOW IT TODAY?
BY LIZZIE 7-Z
March-April 2007
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION

• How did popular (or pop) culture affect our
  social
• society as we know it today?
• Pop culture has affected our society in many
  ways.
• Whether in art or music, it has definitely
  changed
• opinions and outlooks.
• We will be exploring the multiple ways we have
  revolved because
• of pop culture.
• The picture of the title slide page is pop
  cultures calling card
• The Soup Can by Andy Warhol.

A popular icon from the 1960s
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1910s

• Corsets have long been forgotten. The first
  modern zipper has been invented. Silent movies
  dominate theatres and Hollywood soon becomes the
  movie capital instead of the East Coast (i.e.
  Florida, Maine, etc.) Radios are in almost every
  home, becoming a tradition to sit around it and
  listen to shows and the news. The biggest news of
  the decade the sinking of the RMS Titanic in
  1912 See1990s).

(Left) Radio (Right) RMS Titanic
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1920s

• The Jazz Age rules radio programming. (Back
• drop for the musical Chicago). Flapper dresses,
• pantsuits, and hats were all the rage. The bob
  
• hairstyle is made popular by Norma Shearer.
• Feminism, particularly the Womens Suffrage, was
  
• very popular. Probably the biggest event of the
  year
• was the completion of the Chrysler Building, a
• landmark of the Art Deco trend in architecture.
  The
• Academy Awards also made its debut.

Left Chrysler Building Right Stereotypical Jazz
Age woman (Catherine Zeta-Jones from the movie
Chicago, based on the musical).
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1930s

• Better known as the Great Depression, this
• decade is better known for its conservativeness.
• The movie The Wizard of Oz was released and
• the Golden Age or Swing Era of the radio
• began. Betty Boop and Walt Disney made their
• debut during this decade, along with Tintin.

Left Betty Boop Right Wizard of Oz movie poster
(Original)
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1940s

• This year was a big year for movies. Landmark
• movies such as Casablanca, Its A Wonderful
  Life,
• Citizen Kane, Double Indemnity, Mrs. Miniver and
• Notorious. Walt Disney also released Bambi, Dumbo
• and Pinocchio. The musical genres rockabilly
• (Perhaps the earliest of rock music) and rhythm
  
• blues were popular.

Left Traditional LP Right Bambi Poster
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1950s

• Elvis Presley was the king rock n roll, and
  still is today. Lucille
• Ball ruled TV sets with her infamous show I
  Love Lucy.
• Classics such as Sunset Blvd., Ben-Hur and
  All About Eve,
• ruled the box office and the Academy Awards.
  Twilight Zone
• was the first sci-fi show to premiere and
  continue to be successful
• on TV sets. Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn and
  Grace Kelly
• were fashion icons, even to this day,
  popularizing scarves,
• beehive hairstyles and poodle skirts.

Right Marilyn Monroes infamous movie, the Seven
Year Itch Far Right
Elvis Presley
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1960s

• The sixties was the pop culture decade to the
  maximum.
• With icons such as Andy Warhol, changing an
  ordinary
• soup can into a infamous piece of art. The
  Beatles (or the
• Fab Four), ruled charts and radio stations. The
  Sound of
• Music became the highest-grossing movie, until
  1972.
• The Go-Go look was the most popular trend of
  this
• influential decade. The Woodstock music festival
  made
• its debut in 1969. The first James Bond films
  came out in
• the sixties, with Sean Connery as 007. Twiggy,
  the Queen
• of Mod, was an influential trend-setter, along
  with Edie
• Sedgwick and Jackie Kennedy. Other musicians
  popular
• in the swinging sixties included the Band, Bob
  Dylan,
• Janis Joplin, the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys
  and the
• Mamas the Papas.

Left The Beatles Right Jackie Kennedy (All
done by Andy Warhol)
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1970s

• The Disco look was all the craze. Go-go
  boots, metallic
• and afros were everywhere to be seen. The
  Hustle became the calling card for the seventies.
  Donna Summer, ABBA, the Village People, Van McVoy
  and the BeeGees ruled charts and dance floors.
  The Godfather became the highest-grossing move
  until 1973 (released in 1972). The Exorcist
  became the highest-grossing and the biggest
  gross-out movie until 1975 (Jaws). It is perhaps
  still the biggest gross-out movie ever. Star Wars
  (later to be renamed Star Wars IV A New Hope)
  was released and it too became one of the highest
  grossing movies of the 1970s, later to be beat by
  E.T. six years later (1977-1983).

Left Marlon Brando in The Godfather
Right ABBA
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1980s

• The Disco sound still left its marks during
  the 1980s. Songs like Blondies Heart of Glass
  had a Disco B-track. The eighties were a truly
  revolutionary decade of music. Rich in hip-hop
  (Ice-T), Synthpop (Michael Jackson), teen pop
  (The Go-Gos, Tiffany, Debbie Gibson and Cyndi
  Lauper) and charity records like Paul McCartney
  and Stevie Wonders single Ebony Ivory and
  the Live-Aid concert, formed by Bob Geldof,
  raised 150 million for famine relief in
  Ethiopia. Movies were also very popular during
  the 1980s, with Molly Ringwald as the movie queen
  of the 1980s, starring in the films The
  Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink and Sixteen
  Candles. Other revolutionary movies during the
  eighties included The Poltergeist, E.T The
  Extra-Terrestrial, The Little Mermaid and
  Flashdance. Madonna was the music queen, even
  to this day. The dance look was very popular,
  with leggings, leg-warmers and tunics, populated
  by Pat Benatar and Jennifer Beals. Rubiks cube
  and Cabbage Patch Kids were major trends in the
  1980s.

Left Madonna Right Rubiks cube
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1990s

• Teeny-bop music was at its highest point the
  Britney
• (Spears) vs. Christina (Aguilera), a constant
  publicity gimmick.
• Grunge music, such as Nirvana, the Smashing
  Pumpkins and Pearl
• Jam were very popular. Easy breezy pop-folk music
  was back in
• the lime-light with the help of the artists
  Jewel, Alanis Morissette
• and Chantal Kreviazuk. It was also a big decade
  for movies. 1980s
• cult films influenced teen movies such as
  Clueless and Tim
• Burton movies (Edward Scissorhands, etc).
  Blockbusters
• included Star Wars I, Home Alone and the
  queen of all
• blockbusters Titanic, whose record
  2,292,444,182 still hasnt
• been beat. Popular TV shows included Cheers,
  Seinfeld, The
• Simpsons and Family Guy. The legendary book
  series Harry
• Potter first debuted during the 1990s. The
  grunge and
• skater looks were very popular.

Left Seinfeld Right Kurt Cobain
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POP CULTURE TODAY

• Todays biggest popular culture phenomenon
  American
• (Among other countries) Idol. It has had the
  highest TV
• ratings for as long as it has been running (Since
  2002).
• American Idol, nicknamed the Idol phenomenon,
  has
• been adopted in multiple countries, and high
  schools.
• Another phenomenon is the Double Threat
  process.
• Young girls/women, start off in acting or
  singing. The girls
• then get discovered all over again, whether
  its in
• acting or singing. Unfortunately, most of the
  time, theyre
• only good at the first thing (think Lindsay Lohan
  or Paris
• Hilton). Also, some of the movies released in
  2000-and beyond
• have been some of the worst of the century
  (acting and
• writing wise).

An example of American Idol within a school
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THE ICONS

• Who are the biggest pop culture icons? See
• bellow
• 10. Marilyn Monroe
• 9. Walt Disney
• 8. James Bond
• 7. The BeeGees
• 6. The Beatles
• 5. Madonna
• 4. Weird Al Yankovic
• 3. The Brat Pack
• 2. George Lucas
• 1. ANDY WARHOL
• WHAT DID THEY DO?

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10 TO 6 (The Icons)

• 10. MARILYN MONROE
• What did Marilyn do? First of all, that infamous
  scene over the
• subway grate and skirt flies up in The Seven
  Year Itch is still
• iconic to this day. And her tragic and mysterious
  death in 1962
• has still left authorities baffled. (Pictured,
  right, above).
• 9. WALT DISNEY
• Mr. Disney has been nominated for an Oscar a
  record 64 times.
• Along with his ground-breaking animation studio,
  Disney
• produced films such as Bambi, Snow White,
  Fantasia
• and Peter Pan.
• 8. JAMES BOND
• James Bond has been played by six different
  actors circa 1962-
• present, yet his trademark Aston Martin and his
  catch phrase
• Shaken, not stirred, is infamous. Mr. Bond has
  been parodied
• many, many, many times, causing the Austin
  Powers trilogy
• and multiple Simpson's episodes.
• 7. THE BeeGees
• The BeeGees are best known for their work in
  Saturday Night Fever
• starring John Travolta. They did the soundtrack
  for this movie and singles

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5 TO 2 (The Icons)

• 5. MADONNA
• Madonna, or Madge, is an eighty icon. In the
  dictionary, the definition of
• the Eighties, theres a picture of Madonna. She
  was that big, and still is.
• Madge had her own look, that everybody copied
  too much makeup, too
• big and too much attitude. Madonnas still a star
  today.
• 4. WEIRD AL YANKOVIC
• Kurt Cobain called this man a musical genius. He
  excels in his
• profession, the art of PARODY. Yankovic has
  parodied everyone. From
• Madonna, Lucille Ball and Cobain, he has
  populated parodies.
• Intelligent (he skipped two grades), he plays
  with words, transforming
• power ballads into farce.
• 3. THE BRAT PACK
• The Pack was a group of eighties teen cult stars,
  such as Molly Ringwald
• their queen, Emilio Estevez and Demi Moore.
  There were 17 Brat
• movies (The Breakfast Club poster pictured,
  right).
• 2. GEORGE LUCAS
• Lucas has created multiple blockbusters, but
  thats only a mere dent of
• the reason why hes so high up on the list. He
  created THX (logo pictured above), a
• high quality sound system and Industrial Light
  Magic, a special effects company.

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NUMBER ONE (The Icons)

• 1. ANDY WARHOL
• Andy Warhol revolutionized pop culture as we know
  it today. His
• infamous prints are easily recognized with their
  bright colors.
• Warhol usually chose movies, music everyday
  items as his inspiration.
• His most infamous print is most likely his
  Campbell Tomato Soup
• Can. Warhol used actresses such as Marilyn
  Monroe (that spawned
• the Lemon Marilyn print), Audrey Hepburn (the
  Breakfast at
• Tiffany's print) and Elizabeth Taylor. He also
  used political figures such
• as Mao and Jackie Kennedy. Warhols musical
  influences included the
• Beatles and Mick Jagger. Warhol also made films
  (particularly shorts in
• avant-garde) and he also produced music. His
  main inspiration (and
• muse) was the infamous model Edie Sedgwick, model
  and media darling
• à la mode. Popular culture would dare not be the
  same without Andrew
• Warhol (née Warhola).

Right Chanel N5
Far Right Self Portrait (Using
Pointillism)
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THE ART OF PARODY

• Parodies are the backbone of popular culture.
  Whether in
• music, movies or comedy acts, its a staple in
  the pop culture
• world. Some of the better known parodies are the
  works of Alfred
• Yankovic (Commonly known as Weird Al) and Mike
  Myers (Or
• Austin Powers). There are FIVE main types of
  parodies
• In music (i.e. Weird Als version of the MJ song
  Bad becomes Fat).
• In film (i.e. Myers version of the suave James
  Bond becomes
• the ladies man Austin Powers).
• In literature (i.e. Don Quixote is one of the
  earliest examples
• of parodies in literature).
• In art (i.e. The Mona Lisa gets a goatee and a
  moustache
• Duchamps parody of the beloved
  painting).
• Self-parody (i.e. On Ricky Gervais parody show
  Extras,
• Kate Winslet mocks her
  absence of an Oscar).

Left Duchamps Mona Lisa Right Weird Al as
Michael Jackson
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FADS

• Within the last century, there have been some
• pretty crazy fads. Hula-hoops, jelly bracelets
• and gold-fish swallowing (?). The fads have
• changed through the decades, but some are
• having revivals. Rubiks cubes, leggings and
• Hawaiian shirts, just to name a few.

Left Mood ring Right Variation of Rubiks
cubes
For more on fads, check out http//en.wikipedia.or
g/wiki/Fad
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Are YOU a Pop Culture Icon?

• Have you ever been
• Parodied? (By a TV show, or an artist)
• Have you left your mark on society? (Whether with
  a discovery of ground-breaking technology, or
  an infamous role in a TV show/movie)
• Have you CHANGED the world?
• Did you START a fad? (Like hula-hoops or goldfish
  swallowing)
• OR, have you ever been hounded by vicious
  paparazzi?
• If YES has been an answer for more than THREE
  answers
• WERE NOT WORTHY

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CONCLUSION

• And we now come to the end of my PowerPoint
• presentation. I hope you enjoyed and
• (hopefully) learned a few things about the
• mysterious phenomenon we call pop culture.
• We discussed the influence of pop culture
• through the decades in various media places
• (such as Art and Movies). We also mentioned the
• ICONS, Fads and the Art of Parody.
• Whoever controls the mediathe images control
  culture
• -Allen Ginsberg

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