ADDING SNAP AND CRACKLE TO

HISTORY:THE USE OF POP

CULTURE

Dave McMahonGeorge PattersonLaura YostRobinson YostKirkwood Community College

“Using Pop Culture”

“Star Wars” (1977)

A space-age conversation in Quechua!

“Using Pop Culture”

Integrating Film & News Articles

• delivery variety• making “connections”• movies not enough• integrate reality & fiction

K & R Industry

• 75% - how can this happen there?• revolutionary start . . .• “pescando milagroso” & Hargrove

“Using Pop Culture”

Bridging History & Culture with Manga

• Barefoot Gen, Keiji Nakazawa • Domestic life & Hiroshima attack• Buddha, Osamu Tezuka • Augmented life of Buddha

• one of most popular exports• majority of Japanese publications• history of art form development

“Creating Pop Culture”

Feminicidio

Jidai Geki

Narcocorrido

Give students a creativeapproach for presentingmaterial collectively . . .

Learn From & Mimic