Can’t Help Lovin’:David Chidester’s Pop Culture Colonialism by Kathryn Lofton

“… This article examines the likability ofhip-hop star Kanye West and The Voicechampion Jordan Smith to explain the colonial terms for our pop culture taste. The writings of David Chidester establish the tie between religion and colonialism as an axiomatic one; he also argues that popular culture is a rich site for formations of religion. …”
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Shannon Cain, ed., Roadside Curiosities. Stories about American Pop Culture by Nicolas Labarre

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Revue Imaginaires n°19 « Pop Culture ! Les Cultures populaires aujourd’hui. » by Nicolas Labarre

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Os fantasmas pornô de Santiago Nazarian e seus adolescentes bizarros by Aileen El-Kadi

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Does Frankie Go to Hollywood? From American influence to articulatory phonetics: the singing pronunciation of 1980s pop artists by Coline Caillol, Emmanuel Ferragne

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Enhancing Medical Student Engagement Through Cinematic Clinical Narratives: Multimodal Generative AI–Based Mixed Methods Study by Tyler Bland

“…The CCN integrated narrative styles and pop culture references to enhance student engagement. …”
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Reception games of Dušan Taragel (the non-actor) by Peter Darovec

“…The study focuses on the various forms of a specific postmodernist literary game, whose framework and rules are primarily determined by the conventions of pop culture genres. These genre foundations serve as a substrate for creating a unique artistic expression. …”
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Influence of ecological restoration initiatives on emotional bonds between indigenous peoples and the Chinese alligator by Di Wu, Jintu Gu, Jiahao Yu

“…It found that the main effect of the family population outflow (Coeff = −32.62), traditional cultural loss (Coeff = −2.51), pop culture familiarity (Coeff = 1.60) on Indigenous-wildlife emotion was significant. …”
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David Lynch’s Los Angeles: Control and Liberation through the Cinematic Image by Jakob Jurisch

“…Lynch’s cinematic outings, such as the neo-noir Lost Highway (1997), the acclaimed Hollywood fantasy Mulholland Drive (2001), and the experimental nightmare Inland Empire (2006), are all set in the heart of the film industry, in Los Angeles, and reveal his most ambitious vision yet: to examine the hierarchies of images in American pop-culture, providing a space in which dreams and nightmares routinely, yet subtly, intersect. …”
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Accommodation intersubjective et générique dans le forum du Madman’s Café by Stéphane Kostantzer

“…The forum of The Madman’s Café is a place where a community of fans unite in order to engage in in-depth conversations about the latest in Japanese pop culture. Integration into such a selective community requires exacting efforts of accommodation, compelling the members to conform to the generic norms of this particular forum, which derive from the figure of a clearly identifiable prototypical member. …”
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Japanese Popular Culture and Digimodernism by N. B. Afanasov

“…The article refers to the genesis of Japanese popular culture in the mid-90s of the XX century, when the most popular part of Japanese pop culture in the West — anime — embodied the postmodern canon. …”
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The Development and Competition of Cinemas in Jakarta, 1950-1966 by Ghesa Ririan Mitalia

“…The period 1950-1966 become a unique period for Indonesia because of the influx of pop-cultures and trends from the west amidst the euphoria of nationalism. …”
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