La pop culture japonaise (principalement le manga et l’animation), connaît en France un succès durable depuis plus de trente ans, et attire un public croissant, composé en partie de passionnés très investis. Par ailleurs, cette diffusion n’est pas uniquement circonscrite à la France, il s’agit aujourd’hui d’un succès mondial, avéré et reconnu depuis le début du 21ème siècle.C’est dans ce contexte que s’inscrit cette thèse, qui s’efforce de montrer comment se fait la relation entre goût pour la pop culture nippone, imaginaire du Japon et désir de voyage. Nous nous intéresserons donc aux fans devenus touristes, qui mobilisent pour ce séjour les images qu’ils ont élaborés du Japon via la familiarité entretenue avec sa pop culture. Prenant pour modèle le cadre de l’anthropologie du tourisme, cette présentation se fera en trois parties, qui correspondent aux trois temps du voyage. Tout d’abord, nous nous intéresserons à l’avant-voyage, moment où s’élabore l’imaginaire d’une destination. Nous nous pencherons ensuite sur le temps du séjour, pendant lequel les visiteurs jouent le jeu de l’immersion en superposant images préalables et expérience en situation. Enfin, nous aborderons l’après-voyage, en essayant de comprendre comment ce phénomène fait écho sur le territoire japonais, et engendre reconnaissance et légitimation des productions de pop culture, qui est alors comprise comme un témoignage de la spécificité de l’identité japonaise.Le fil conducteur de cette recherche est donc la légitimation de la pop culture, qui passe par son plébiscite en dehors de l’Archipel, dans un mouvement de reconnaissance qui entremêle regards étrangers et autochtones. / Japanese pop culture (manga and animation) has been successful in France for more than thirty years now, and it attracts more and more audience, with very deep lovers as a part of it. Anyway, this diffusion is not only a French phenomenon, as it has been a recognized and acknowledged success since the beginning of the 21st century.This is the frame of this research, which aims to show how the taste for Japanese pop culture, the imaginary of the country and the desire to visit it are linked. We will look at fans of Japanese pop culture and how they become tourists, since they use for the travel the pictures they have built about Japan through their strong intimacy with its pop culture.Taking the anthropology of tourism as a model, this presentation is divided in three parts, which are the three moments of a travel. Firstly, we are going to look at the moment before the trip, when the imaginary of the place is built. Then, we will move during the stay, when travelers are trying to immerge themselves in the country, using their previous picture of place and superimposing it to their concrete experience. So, we will conclude with the third stage, after the stay, trying to understand how this phenomenon is echoing into Japanese territory. We will see that it creates a sort of legitimization of the pop culture and its objects, which becomes a testimony of the Japanese cultural identity.The conducting thread of this research is then that legitimization of the Japanese pop culture, which is allowed by that praise outside of Japan, in a movement of recognition, when foreign and local looks are intertwining.

This thesis examines virginity as a social construct, contextualizes the relevance of first sex for contemporary youth, and presents a model for reading themes of virginity and first sex in popular media. Through discursive analysis, the central sections of this thesis – Virginity, Femininity, and Masculinity – analyze themes of sexual abstinence across the four books of the Twilight series. Examining contemporary and historical contexts placing gendered value on virginity and virginity loss, this project suggests that virginity narratives reflect whose bodies are considered to be valuable in society and for what purpose. The conclusion argues that virginity narratives are fundamentally colonial narratives, requiring the fantasy of unclaimed spaces, conquerors, and those to be conquered.

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This paper examines a fragment of the evident cultural exthange occurring along the U.S. — Mexico border in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. Many Nogales youth are absorbing American popular culture through purchasing American popular culture commodities, such as music. The paper raises questions of how and why the Nogales youth purchase their pop culture commodities, and of the interpretations the Nogales youth make of said commodities' symbolic significance. After methodologies and context of the study are discussed, the paper defines popular culture and its relationship to commodity production. It then focuses on how the youth access their pop culture products and the factors that influence their buying decisions. At its end, the paper compares the interpretations of the Nogales youth with those of American youth in terms of pop culture goods.

In this thesis, I examine the ways in which a growing number of Indigenous artists in the United States and Canada are using hip hop not only as a form of artistic expression, but also to vent frustration about and to draw attention to contemporary issues affecting their communities. These artists participate in a tradition of politically conscious performance that has influenced and been influenced by Indigenous social movements across North America. Indigenous hip hop serves to affirm and redefine twenty-first century Indigenous identities, disrupting and reinterpreting stereotypical representations of Native Americans in a process which I describe as an “authenticity loop.” By utilizing artistic choices and strategic representations of indigeneity, the artists I examine have firmly established that they along with their communities are not remnants of the past, even as they maintain a continuity between previous generations and the present day.

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“Textual Glory Holes” examines a particular online fan community called a kink meme, in which fans exchange sexually-charged fanfiction as gifts. In this essay, I argue that, not only does the genre of fanfiction help to create and sustain the concept of kink, but that kink as a category is an interpellation of, experimentation with, and performance of the eroticism of genre in fanfiction. Furthermore, the kink meme community constitutes itself by performing this fannish erotics for each other in fiction and in sexualized feedback, resulting in a community that embraces the pleasures of this performance but sometimes distances itself from the power and political implications of the performance. Moments when fans do not distance themselves from this erotics of genre—one of unearthing and understanding diverse and diffuse pleasures—hold the potential to become what Audre Lorde calls “creative energy empowered,” a shared pleasure that can “lessen the threat of difference.” / text

Siuvinių dizaino ir technologijos darbo tikslas suprojektuoti popkultūros vaikiškus marškinius. Darbo pradžioje pateikiama literatūros apžvalga. Joje aprašomas teigiamos ir neigiamos popkultūros išraiškos, pateikiami pavyzdžiai. Vaikiškuose marškiniuose naudojami parinkto personazo - Hario Poterio akcentai: apskritimo formos detalės - įmituojančios akinukus, užrašas nugaros aptinėje dalyje, priklijuojamos aplikacijos. Įvertinus eksplotavimo sąlygas parenkamas audinys – bambuko ir elastano mišinys, nurodomos pagrindinės audinio savybės, pateikiami palyginimai, nurodomos pagrindinės medžiagos charakteristikos, taip pat nurodomos įdėklinės medžiagos savybės bei charakteristikos. Parenkams konstravimo metodikos, sudaromas bazinis pagrindas. Atliktas konstrukcinis modeliavimas: perkeltas pečių įsiuvas, nubraižoma papetės detalė, sudaromi skeltukai, priekio užsagas, sumodeliuojama rankovė. Programa COMTENSE atliekama detalių gradacija bei nustatomos medžiagos sąnaudos. Siuvant vaikiškus marškinius kokybės kontrolė tikrinma keliais etapais: žaliavos tikrinimas, lekalų tikrinimas, detalių paklijuotų klijiniais įdėklais tikrinimas, tarpinė kontrolė, galutinė kontrolė. Pateikiamos parinktų bendrosios paskirties universaliųjų ir specialiųjų siuvimo įrenginių charakteristikos, specialiosios paskirties siuvimo pusautomačių charakteristikos, gaminiui apdoroti rekomenduojamų higroterminio apdorojimo įrenginių charakteristikos, bei gaminio apdorojimo siūlių charakteristikos. Sudaroma... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The aim of sewing design and technology work is to design pop - culture on children‘s shirts. There is are literature review at the begining of the work. There are described the positive and the negative expressions of pop – culture, there are also presented examples. There are resed accents of the chosen character – Harry Potter in the children‘ shirts such as: the details of the circle – imitating small spectacles, the wote at the bottom part the back, stick ao appliques. The material is chosen after evaluatig conditions of the exploitation – the mixture of the bamboo and elastane, the main features of the material are explained, comparisons are presentented, the main characteristics of the material, there are also the pointed out features and characteristics of the supplementary material. The design methodology is chosen, a bist of the basic framework. Design simulation was carried out: it was moved to the shoulder dart, there were ploted yoke details, it was. Concluded slits, was made the front fastener, the sleve was shaped. The programme COMTENSE makes the gradation of details and was determined the cost of materials. Qualitywas checked in several stager stitching children‘s shirts: materials testing, mold testing, details, which were sticked glue pot inserts testing, an interim review, final review. There were presented chosen characteristics cammon purpose, multipurpose of special sewing equipments, special destination of sewing semiautomatic hygrothermal performance... [to full text]

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Ideological partisans in the United States are increasingly “sorting” themselves along cultural lines, from the cable news stations they watch to the chain restaurants they prefer. How do partisans seem to “know” how to sort themselves along ideological lines in cultural realms that offer no obvious political cues? To investigate this question, I look to the realm of narrative television, where conservatives and liberals have certain unique favorite programs despite the programs lacking any overt political content. I employ a quantitative content analysis to demonstrate that the substance of these polarizing shows relate to the social traits of curiosity, conformity, relativism, dogmatism, tribalism, vigilance, and chastity, which have previously been demonstrated to correspond to political ideology.