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Why Important to Popular
Culture?
• Mixed cast.
• Minorities and Women in important roles.
• First interracial kiss on national TV.
• Characters and stories are ingrained in popular
American Culture.

POPULAR TV
‘50S SUPER HERO VS. ’60S SUPER HERO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CYZ0p3PjeE&playnext=1&list=PLB8F
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POPULAR TV
‘50S SUPER HERO VS. ’60S SUPER HERO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CYZ0p3PjeE&playnext=1&list=PLB8F03
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POPULAR TV
‘50S SUPER HERO VS. ’60S SUPER HERO
How are these different?
• Superman = “All American Hero”
• ’50s Superman, serious, conventional, highly moral.
• Batman, more comic.
• Batman, easily seduced. Watch him dance. Nothing like
John Wayne.

SUPER HERO’S AND SCIENCE FICTION
What might we read about a culture that becomes interested in “being lost on an island”, “being a star trekker”, or being simply “lost in space”?
Breaking from convention. Exploring the unknown.
Being more fantastical.
Why?

What does this say about the culture?

In fashion

Psychedelic music…

4 to 6 People
Identify 5 differences between the culture (values, beliefs, customs, social roles, social structure, etc.) of the 1950s and 1960s. For each difference identify an artifact from each decade that supports your claim.

• Counterculture Movements:
• TV shows grow and “matures”
• Fashion
• Explosion of musical genres.
• Motown
• British Invasion
• Rock, and Roll, Country
• Folk, Peace and Love Songs
• Dance Songs

What does this say about the culture?
• Creative, exploratory.
• But also chaotic and scary for some
.

THE SCARY CHAOTIC ‘60S
WAR PROTESTS

THE SCARY CHAOTIC ‘60S
CIVIL RIGHTS PROTESTS

THE SCARY CHAOTIC ‘60S
FEAR & BLAME
What happens when people become afraid?

THE SCARY CHAOTIC ‘60S
ASSASSINATIONS
John F. Kennedy (1963) Malcolm X (1965)

THE SCARY CHAOTIC ‘60S
ASSASSINATIONS
Martin Luther King Jr. (1968) Robert Kennedy (1968)

THE SCARY CHAOTIC ‘60S
FEAR & MUSIC
• Hidden messages in their music?
• Beatles
• Hidden meanings in song lyrics?
• Puff The Magic Dragon
• Hippies were threatening to some.
• “Peace, Love, and Harmony”
• Anti-work, pro-drug, promiscuous sex