Pop Culture Creation

Television has become one of the most prominent and substantial sources of entertainment and information, which is considered as an integral part of contemporary life. Television and other forms of media have become a significant element of popular culture, but there are several arguments, which propose the negative impacts of this popular culture to be graver than its positive impacts on individuals. The element of popular culture, which is television or media, is surrounded by two contrary sides, in which one aims to illuminate the positive impacts and the other presents the severity of negative impacts. The contradiction, which lies among these contrary arguments, are based on the strive between television and media as informative entities and these entities as a deviation of human capacities, media as a source of entertainment and media as the promoter of violence, and popular culture as the enlightening medium and popular culture as the intellectual wastage (Graff, Birkenstein and Durst pp. 275-276). It depicts the two faceted persistence of popular culture of media in society. However, the actual persistence and influence of media in contemporary times portrays the positive aspect of media as the dominating side among the contradictions of arguments. Its aspects of entertainment, information and enlightening intellectual and cognitive capacities are more associated than its limited drawbacks.

Avatar is one of the most successful movies of its time, directed by the legendary director James Cameron, the same person who brought us the epic movie 'Titanic'. To give a brief synopsis of the movie, it shows the story of a person who is recruited for a mission to another planet where a special element is found, that is worth millions on Earth. When reaching the new planet, the actor falls in love with a 'person' from that planet and realizes that the mission is rather like an invasion and the process of recovering that element would mean destroying the homes of thousands of Urukai (the people living on that planet). Additionally, the people of those planets are blue in color and different from the people living on Earth and to be able to mix and mingle with them, the humans create special 'Avatars' which they can control using their mind (Johnston, 2009). Although the movie Avatar is somewhat different from the events of the Age of Imperialism, there are several similarities that can be noted and pointed out at a much more ...