Floresta de símbolos: bicho e poesia para crianças e adultos inteligentes by Augusto Rodrigues da Silva Junior

“…However, expressing different trends and multiple images, these books contain features in common that resemble them, such as fun and diversion, humor, imagination, realism, eco literature aspects, popular culture and colloquial language.…”
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Le radicalisme de Michael Moore by Jean-Marie Ruiz

“…However, his main thesis, which is repeatedly expressed in his films and books, does not primarily criticize American popular culture or political tradition. Rather, this article argues that Moore’s thought may best be analysed through the American tradition of radicalism, whose origin dates back to Thomas Paine. …”
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Être ou ne pas être subversives ? by Dominique Bourque

“…Is this a consequence of the hypersexualisation of young women in the medias and the pornographisation of popular culture? Can it be a survival strategy in a backlash context that masks (non factice) lesbianism? …”
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Venezia dei bassifondi: la città dei marginali, della classe operaia e del pittoresco popolare by Alessandro Casellato

“…The paper describes continuity and changes in popular culture in Venice during the first half of the 20th century. …”
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Who Gets to Play? Disability, Open Literacy, Gaming by Ellis Katie, Kao Kai-Ti

“…Video games are an expanding area of popular culture spanning traditional age, gender and socioeconomic divides and appealing to a diverse market. …”
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Penser la musique, Écouter les images. Lectures de Cahiers d’art, Jazz et Documents sur le jazz et le cinéma américains by Diane Turquety

“…From 1926 to 1931, Cahiers d’art, Jazz and Documents, magazines on art or culture more generally, covered American jazz and cinema in a new way. Marked by popular culture, the United States and the “exotic” touch embodied by the American black community, these entertainments were elevated to the rank of new forms of artistic expression, vectors of an ideal modernity. …”
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Colour reception(s): The Narrative of the Exhibition “Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion and Design” (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 21 September 2023-18 February 2024) by Charlotte Ribeyrol

“…Although the Victorian era is often depicted in sombre tones in popular culture, the age of industry in fact brought about a series of scientific and technical innovations in the fields of colour perception and production. …”
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Intérpretes e notáveis da literatura e da cultura popular do Maranhão by Igor Gastal Grill, Eliana Tavares dos Reis

“…We analyzed Academic Profiles and Popular Culture Profiles taking into consideration: (i) the social and political position of the agents (biographers and biographiers), defined by the resources on which their “reputation” and their inscriptions are based on cultural and political struggles; (ii) the structuring strategies of the works, observing the selection and hierarchization of the cases, available space, assigned classifications, among others; (iii) and the contents, adjectives, definitions, finally, the representations explained in the pre-texts and laudatory texts. …”
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Modos subordinados de acceso a los clásicos en Los príncipes valientes de Javier Pérez Andújar by Jessica Cáliz Montes

“…More specifically, it thoroughly analyses the coexistence of oral popular tradition and new popular culture during the late periods of Franco regime, disseminated by media and closely corresponding to the (Amorós) « subculture » –television, comics, cinema, music, etc.– where there is also place for the dissemination of high culture. …”
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Représenter le crime : permanences et inflexions (France, xixe siècle) by Dominique Kalifa

“…Crime and delinquency have always been one of the major themes of popular culture and representations which fashion social imagination. …”
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Changing Faces of Change: Metanarratives in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election by Albion M. Butters

“…Framing of the election as a story reveals that the various actors were increasingly aware of their shifting identities, representations, and agency; thus, change was not just a plot of the story, frequently expressed in terms of populism and popular culture, but a fundamental dynamic behind competing metanarratives and contestations of how the story should be told.…”
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Os males do Brasil são: a doença como elemento distintivo da condição de ser brasileiro by Ermelinda Maria Araújo Ferreira

“…The similarity of these works points to the interest of these researchers on popular culture - in particular that related to the spontaneous understanding of the luso-brazilian people about the evils of body and soul, and its stigmatizing and metaphorical interpretations of illness as a social evil. …”
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Des séries de mouvements aux images du temps dans les séries, ou l’art d’analyser les fictions audiovisuelles by Jean-Pierre Esquenazi, Stéfany Boisvert

“…This interview with Jean-Pierre Esquenazi (Université Lyon 3) focuses on his important contribution to the analysis of films, TV series, and popular culture. The article discusses his social semiotic approach for media productions, with its emphasis on audiences and interpretation. …”
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‘Grim Realities’ or ‘Light of Fancy’? Charles Dickens in the Bulgarian Classroom by Zelma Catalan

“…A greater attention to Dickens’s relation to popular culture will allow students from non-Anglophone countries to tap into the richness and variety of his art.…”
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Orientalism and the British Picture Postcard Industry: Popularizing the Empire in Victorian and Edwardian Homes by Gilles Teulié

“…It is against this context that the article will consider how ‘high culture’ and ‘popular culture’ (and particularly postcards) permeated Victorian and Edwardian society, and through the transformative power of the Arts, contributed eminently to the consolidation of the imperial project.…”
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Cabaret as new journalism by Coenie de Villiers

“…(This paper was read at a one-day seminar entitled Communications In teractions In Popular Culture at the Rand Afrikaans University on Au gust 14, 1992.) …”
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Norway Reimagined by Ratilainen Saara

“…Employing multimodal discourse analysis to the social media platform VKontakte, I examine how Russophone audiences of global television imagine the country of origin of their object of fandom, and how spatial imaginations embedded in this process contribute to popular geopolitics of Norden – that is, to geopolitical reasoning of narratives and representations of Nordic countries available through popular culture. My analysis shows how Norway and its positioning in the world provides an important symbolic resource for further discussions on identity and belonging. …”
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National Team of Greece: Gender, Sports, and the Recession by Georgia Aitaki

“…Building on scholarly approaches to the ideological role of popular culture in turbulent times, this article examines the infiltration of recession themes in the content of television fiction, while centralizing a gendered reading of the narrative of the case at hand. …”
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Mansplaining explained: The role of the better-than-average effect and the interpretation bias in acts and accusations of mansplaining by Fokkema Astrid, Pollmann Monique

“…Mansplaining, the phenomenon of men degradingly explaining something to women, is widely recognized in popular culture but has received little scholarly attention so far. …”
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Rebellious Enthusiasm, Ambivalent Forms: On Freedom and Bondage in Tyehimba Jess’s Olio by Molly McCracken

“…At the same time, it explores how the collection’s three-dimensional forms materialize feelings of constraint to reveal the embeddedness of antiblackness in American popular culture, and the fragility of liberty into the twentieth century and beyond. …”
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