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A pop icon is a celebrity, character, or object whose exposure in popular culture is regarded as constituting a defining characteristic of a given society or era. The usage of the term is largely subjective since there are no definitively objective criteria.
Popular culture (also called pop culture or mass culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art [cf. pop art] or mass art, sometimes contrasted with fine art) [1] [2] and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time.
Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, has appeared in popular culture as a character in novels, films, musicals, comics, and video games. His experiment, using a kite, to prove that lightning is a form of electricity has been an especially popular aspect of his biography in fictional depictions.
One year later, that advice column was published again in an academic paper that coined the phrase "parasocial relationship," which was defined as a "seeming face-to-face relationship between ...
The multifaceted emcee performed hits like "NISSAN ALTIMA" and "Black Girl Memoir" during her highly-anticipated NPR set, solidifying her spot in pop culture history as one of the best Tiny Desks ...
In the category "Acting directors," Pop Culture Jeopardy provided the following clue: "He's directed himself in movies in which he played a professor, a sanitation worker & a psychiatrist ...
In That '70s Show, the character Steven Hyde often wears a Che Guevara t-shirt. Eric Burdon wears a Che Guevara shirt as host of the PBS special The '60s Experience. PBS held a forum titled 'the Legacy of Che' where they proclaimed that: "Che Guevara was a pop icon of mythic proportions." In The Simpsons episode "Who Shot Mr. Burns?
All 40 episodes of "Pop Culture Jeopardy" are slated to premiere on Amazon's streaming service Prime Video. The first three episodes premiere on Dec. 4, 2024 and new ones will drop every Wednesday.