Description:
Select a particular theory or thesis for the final essay. Connect your thesis/theory to a popular culture character (fictional or nonfictional, famous, infamous, or personally connected, etc.) choose a character to write about it.
This essay is not about the popular culture character you chose as much as it is about the connection between your thesis and that character.
For instance, you could examine how Durkheim’s notions of the collective consciousness and mechanical solidarity are represented in that particular cultural object, and how this connects that object to “ritual” and ritualistic behavior within contemporary culture. Or you might trace Nietzsche’s concepts of the Apollonian and Dionysian in relation to the character. Joseph Campbell’s four functions of mythology also have a wide-ranging application in analyzing pop-culture characters. Maybe you would be interested in performing a structuralist analysis of the character you chose: What are the syntagma (basic units) that make up your choice? How are those syntagma organized? And what are the basic primary polarities or opposites (paradigms) around which your choice is constructed? Propp’s functions and types could be an excellent tool for analyzing narrative forms in popular culture; perhaps you can even discover extended uses for his ideas in other aspects of popular culture.
Your Final Essay should have three parts:
Introduction with theses
A body with well-constructed paragraphs linking one to another
A conclusion in which you make your point
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