Popular culture is simply culture which is widely favoured or well liked by many people.
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Popular culture encompasses common culture, mass culture, and subcultures.

A genre of writing that shares features with both formal academic writing (e.g., documentation of sources) and popular non-fiction (e.g., lower threshold of verification).

A rhetorical device, literary technique, or situation in which there is a sharp incongruity or discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident intention of words or actions.

A genre of serialized nonfiction programming that presents purportedly unscripted events, does not employ professional actors, and focuses on footage of real events or situations.

1) Early, primitive or avant-garde phase
2) Classical or “Golden Age” phase
3) Diversification or revisionist phase
4) The “Post-” or Parodic Phase

your notion of popular culture as distinct other people’s ideas of popular culture.
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popular culture as distinct from something else.

The process of creating characters for a story and conveying information about them by means of description, actions, speech, or thoughts.

Words used according to commonly accepted usage.
They are used to mean (to denote) exactly what they say.

The view that media technology shapes and possibly controls how we as individuals in a society think, feel, act, and how are society operates as we move from one technological age to another.

1) Narrator
2) Orientation
3) Agents
4) Point, Significance or Theme
5) Evaluation (optional)
6) Abstract (optional)
7) Coda (optional)

Popular culture is simply everything that is not “high” or “élite” culture.

The dominant idea(s) within a story, what the situation and actions in a story say about human life, the meaning of a story.

An imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation.

The body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group (e.g., communism, fascism, liberalism, etc.)
OR a set of conscious and/or unconscious ideas that constitute one's goals, expectations,

1) Essential Features
2) Types and Classifications
3) Social Markers
4) Individuating Details

Representative in a positive way
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Representative in a deterministic way

The unspoken premise or undertone of a work, the “inner” or implicit motivations impelling the action or characters, the implied message of a story, anything that’s not shown or said in a story but that readers must nonetheless figure out in order to 'get

Words used in a way that exaggerates or alters their common meaning.
They are used to suggest (to connote) ideas or images.

The time, place, and social circumstances in which a story is set.

The art of creating a fictional or artistic image of a concept, thing, event or social identity from the actual world.
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To record or depict without embellishment or interpretation and render everyday characters, situations, dilemmas, and objects, all i

The way that story events are related or linked in a sequence.
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The basic means by which we make sense of the world, provide meaning to our experience, and organize our lives.

A long literary work, usually in prose, but sometimes in verse, in which the author bitterly laments the state of society and its morals in a serious tone of sustained invective, and always contains a prophecy of society's imminent downfall.

An aesthetic sensibility that regards something as appealing or humorous because of its deliberate ridiculousness.

“the spirit of the age”; The general cultural, intellectual, ethical, spiritual, or political climate within a nation or even specific groups, along with the general ambiance, morals, sociocultural direction, and mood associated with an era.

A kind or category of literary or cultural work that shares a common set of conventions.
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A form of appearance, design, or production, the way in which something is done, or the manner in which something is expressed or performed, considered as separa