Pop culture and social issues in visual media

Essay 1 Visual Media Analysis How does pop culture reflect, influence, critique, and comment on social issues, and how can we read into these narratives more incisively? Your task is to select a visual media text and analyze what that text reveals about contemporary culture. In what ways is your text tapping into, mocking, or reinforcing cultural ideologies? How does the text work to establish or critique social norms? Objective: Write a thesis-driven analytical essay that explores the cultural impact of a visual media/pop culture text a film, TV series, ad campaign, social media trend/influencers content, video game, or other visual form of mass media. Using evidence from 3-4 sources to develop your analysis, explain what this text reveals or satirizes about contemporary U.S. culture or the culture of another country you have lived in/are connected to. (5-6 double-spaced pages + Works Cited, due February 10) Source and Citation Requirements: Your essay will include evidence from a primary source the specific visual media text and 3-4 secondary sources to develop an analysis of your selected text and the cultural work/effects it produces. Locate and incorporate relevant evidence from 3-4 secondary sources (either texts written about your primary text specifically or texts that help you to develop an aspect of your analysis). AT LEAST ONE of these must be a scholarly source, such as a peer-reviewed article in an academic journal. Use MLA format for in-text citation and documentation; include a Works Cited list that documents the sources you cite in the essay. Consult Everyones An Author (563-602, 617) for assistance in compiling your Works Cited page accurately, in correct MLA format.