And manifestations of Japanese popular culture-from Manga comics to karaoke-are now all the rage among young Chinese.
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The casual misogyny of some black popular culture, especially hip-hop music and videos, is a disgrace.
There is a taboo that left-leaning critics of popular culture are obliged to observe: never criticize the populace.
Their sheep-like infatuation with popular teen culture, which glorifies ignorance, laziness and disrespect for their own community and elders, makes it almost impossible to teach them anything.
If popular culture is fixated on hero-worship that promotes a protagonist-antagonist framework, then unilateral sentiments can be expected.
The facts surrounding the ill-fated maiden voyage permeate popular culture.
This plays on two deep-seated worries about American popular culture: that it is hard to filter so that you just get the good bits (download Bob Dylan on to your son's iPod, and Snoop Dogg soon pops up as well) and that popular culture spawns social change.
Technology, entertainment, the chance to shape global popular culture for the next 40 years-insanely great!
Events around popular culture can lead to lasting friendships -- Carlotti met a girl at an event for the "Breaking Dawn" book launch nearly two years ago.
It was interesting, however, that his one culture-war declaration -- "No parent in America should be forced to compete with popular culture to raise their children!"
He extolled all the things he loved about America - its show business, its popular music, and its sports, as well as its politics and its higher culture - and he did so in talks carefully pre-written to sound as natural, discursive and conversational as possible, and delivered in comforting, mellifluous tones.
"This is a fatuous show with nothing fresh to say about popular culture and our fixation with fame, " his one-star write-up continued.
While "Dr. No" may have introduced Bond to the big screen, it was the spiraling success of Sean Connery's subsequent films "From Russia With Love, " "Goldfinger, " and "Thunderball" -- each tapping into the mid-'60s appetite for taut espionage-themed thrillers -- that transformed him into a universally recognized icon of popular culture.
It will still be a popular ploy for politicians to attack the short-term trading mentality and bonus culture that pervades investment banking.
Part of that fascination with superheroes and their growing cachet in popular culture is why Marvel Entertainment, home to the Fantastic Four, the X-Men and the Avengers, among others, is making more than 700 first issues available to digital readers starting Sunday for free through the Marvel app and the company's website.
Jon Hein, the creator of the Jumptheshark.com Web site -- which charts the rise and fall of TV shows and other pop culture -- says "The Simpsons" is by far the most popular topic on his Web site, and there have been rumblings that the show has leaped the fish, or at least started turning into chum.
The Great Before, goes the myth, was a time of peace, plenty and triviality, when we coasted in blissful self-absorption, drunk on day trading, egged on by a selfish, amoral popular culture.
One of the aims of the institute, she says, is to find interconnections between ancient cultures as well as look at what the institute sees as under-represented ancient cultures -- and the culture of ancient Babylonian math, she says, is ripe for popular revision.
Popular culture has embraced the iconography, from the mask in Wes Craven's Scream films to the Munch-inspired alien villains The Silence in Doctor Who.
"The Guy Fawkes mask has now become a common brand and a convenient placard to use in protest against tyranny - and I'm happy with people using it, it seems quite unique, an icon of popular culture being used this way, " he says.
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