U.S. pop culture seen as plague
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Robert H. Bork remembers his ambivalence in 1989 as the Berlin Wall came down and dungarees and rock music poured into the former East Germany.
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Comment is free: John Harris:  Our popular culture is increasingly defined by an unhealthy refusal to let go of the past
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Perfect for a culture obsessed with its innards, a new documentary dispenses with all the plot nonsense of CSI and House. One high-def shot after another of visceral video -- cold beer flowing down a man's gullet, or a teen's muscle-and-bone growth spurt -- show beauty is more than skin deep.
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Plague, the disease that devastated medieval Europe, is re-emerging worldwide and poses a growing but overlooked threat, researchers warned on Tuesday.
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Traditional expectations and conservative tastes in dance have contributed to an inhibited visual aesthetic.
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"Legong: Dance of the Virgins" is a delirious blend of sentimental fiction and ethnological fact. Also, Orson Welles's "It's All True" and "Spider-Man 2."
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This American icon seems destined to lag for the forseeable future.
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Sometimes media metrics and audiences have very different views of what works.
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Think the inexorable spread of cities is a bad thing? Think again.
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As video games become more popular than ever, hard-core gamers and the old-school critics who represent them are becoming an ever smaller part of the audience.
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"Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture" is not your typical business book. Instead, it's a wide-ranging work of social criticism peppered with examples from the movies and rock music. The authors focus more on the psychology of consumers than the inner workings of the boardroom, which is not surprising, considering that both come from backgrounds in philosophy. Each ...
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Music is still a big force in pop culture, but the music businessâs own comeback attempt is falling flat.
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'Team America,' a satire with puppets, and the time-travel movie 'Primer' are opposite intellectual extremes.
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A PBS documentary suggests that while Europeans speak about American culture with great disdain, they consume it with a bottomless appetite.
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The sociology of croquet might be seen as a microcosm of the deterioration of manners and civility in America.
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Cartoon characters adored by kids seized the spotlight in the latest flare-up of America's culture wars, but the debate itself poses serious questions for adults involving the depiction of gays and lesbians in materials for teaching children about diversity and tolerance.
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âHoneydripper,â directed by John Sayles, is a shambling fusion of pop mythology and social mosaic.