help with a cirtical anaylsis?

Question

I need topics in pop culture that i can anaylise. meaning i need to brek the topic down and being able make 5 pages out of it. It needs to have a loy of componets

Answer 1

First, let's start with the Wikipedia definition of Pop Culture:
Popular culture, or pop culture, (literally: "the culture of the people") consists of the cultural elements that prevail (at least numerically) in any given society, mainly using the more popular media, in that society's vernacular language and/or an established lingua franca. It results from the daily interactions, needs and desires and cultural 'moments' that make up the everyday lives of the mainstream. It can include any number of practices, including those pertaining to cooking, clothing, mass media and the many facets of entertainment such as sports and literature.

Next, find a work that interests you on which to perform the critical analysis.

Finally, consider the following questions to break the topic down and write your report: How is the material organized? Who is the intended audience? What are the writer's assumptions about the audience? What kind of language and imagery does the author use?

After the passage under analysis has been carefully studied, the critique can be drafted using this sample outline.

I. Background information to help your readers understand the nature of the work
A. Information about the work
1. Title
2. Author
3. Publication information
4. Statement of topic and purpose
B. Thesis statement indicating writer's main reaction to the work
II. Summary or description of the work
III. Interpretation and/or evaluation
A. Discussion of the work's organization
B. Discussion of the work's style
C. Effectiveness
D. Discussion of the topic's treatment
E. Discussion of appeal to a particular audience

A few hot Pop Culture topics include:
Tainted Spinach and the effect the ecoli outbreak is having on the growers and processing plants in the Salinas Valley of California.

Cycling doping scandal - the pre-Tour de France Spanish Doping Scandal that barred the top riders from the race. Then, the winner, Floyd Landis, was disqualified and stripped of his title due to a failed drug test. Since the scandal broke there is a movement to "overhaul" the sport.

I'm sure there are works on either of these topics that you could locate and analyze.