Blog Post 11/30: Group Project
For my group’s project, we decided to create a documentary pertaining to campus safety — specifically as it pertains to women. We wanted to find a topic that was relevant to all group members and, as we were all female students living on campus at PSU, this topic fit. The idea initially came up due…
Blog Post 11/2: Princess Mononoke
For this weeks blog post we were asked to review the Studio Ghibli film Princess Mononoke and how it is relevant to modern day environmentalism. The interesting thing about our plant that people seem to forget is just how…old it is. Earth has destroyed and rebuilt itself countless times in the past, and now, with global warming…
Blog Post 10/26: Comics and Diversity
The two superhero comics I chose to focus on this week were Totally Awesome Hulk Vol. 1: Cho Time and Kamala Khan Ms. Marvel: No Normal. The first told the story of Amadeus Cho, a new Korean-American incarnation of the hulk. The city I grew up in has a primarily Korean population so most of my friends…
Blog Post 10/12 Documentaries
For this week’s post I ventured a bit off the assignment and decided to focus on two documentaries centered around the same issue but on opposite sides of the coin: the Netflix film Audrie and Daisy and an episode of ESPN’s docuseries 30 for 30 entitled “Fantastic Lies”. Audrie and Daisy details the stories of two young, high…
Blog Post 10/5: Introduction
Hello, my name is Rachel Roznos and this is my Popular Culture course blog. I consume popular culture through a variety of ways: movies, TV shows, reading, podcasts, and even good ol’ fashion word of mouth. The last method is especially useful to me as I tend to avoid media based in current reality and…
Welcome
This is where I’ll be posting weekly blog update for my Popular Culture class. “Next week has been exhausting.” – A Random Person
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