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Charles John Klosterman (/ ˈ k l oʊ s t ər m ə n /; [1] born June 5, 1972) is an American author and essayist whose work focuses on American popular culture.He has been a columnist for Esquire and ESPN.com and wrote "The Ethicist" column for The New York Times Magazine.
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.
Various streamed shows have featured librarians. For instance, in Hilda, there is a character known as "The Librarian." One reviewer, a librarian named Burkely Hermann, called her character "among the most positive pop culture depictions of librarians," apart with libraries in Cleopatra in Space and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. [38]
Batman has become a popular culture icon, recognized around the world. The character's presence has extended beyond his comic book origins; events such as the release of the 1989 Batman film and its accompanying merchandising "brought the Batman to the forefront of public consciousness". [1]
Popular culture, or pop culture is the vernacular (people's) culture that prevails in a modern society. The content of popular culture is determined in large part by industries that disseminate cultural material, for example the film, television, and publishing industries, as well as the news media popular culture cannot be described as just the aggregate product of those industries; instead ...
In an episode of Family Guy, supporting character Glenn Quagmire launches into a tirade regarding reasons he doesn't like main character, Brian Griffin. One such reason is that he believes that Brian is the sort to lecture a woman with a primitive interpretation of The Catcher in the Rye and how Holden Caulfield is "some profound intellectual ...
In "Treehouse of Horror X", the Fourth Doctor is one of several pop culture figures seen stored in aluminized PET film bags within the Collector's lair. In the episode, " Co-Dependents' Day ", two Daleks are seen in the Galactic Senate from the in-universe science-fiction film Cosmic Wars: The Gathering Shadow (a reference to Star Wars: Episode ...
Johnson's rise to the presidency inspired the satirical play MacBird! by Barbara Garson. [citation needed]Johnson's relationship with Martin Luther King Jr. and his support of the Voting Rights Act are depicted in Christopher Hampton's play Appomattox, which debuted at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis in September 2012.