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Why pop culture and fun matters
This draft was written before my master’s thesis exactly on Pop Culture — although I did minor retouchings to it. A year ago, I wrote a lot just to clear my mind; to start somewhere; to write and erase and write again. A year has passed, and the path, even if painful at times, was also a joyful one that led me to a completely different awareness of what Pop Culture really is. Later, when I find the time, I will start writing more about this outcome, and how I completely change direction and turns out I end up talking about Spike Lee, who became my favorite American director.
However, even if today I would counter-argue in almost everything I have written here — since my awareness on the subject has changed considerably — I still find some of these ideas interesting before I had gotten into the more technical aspects of the gig. Therefore, and because I think that some of these ideas are interesting, I thus decided to publish this draft.
Fun seems to be an underrated concept among scholars. An idea that becomes entrenched the more time we spend in the school world. Schoolwork is not compatible with the long days of childhood
watching television. Instead of focusing on the “real work” that we should be doing for school. In today’s light, the truth is that some of them seemed to be irrelevant. Especially for me and anything involving…
