intertexuality and bootleg culture

in my own words I think of intertextuality as the relationship between two or more texts. So if you told the story of Moby Dick but then you threw in some details from Cinderella and all the mash ups that dj's do that we read about. The dj's do work with the songs but they defiantly don't do as much as the artists actually do.


the hit movie pitch perfect had plenty of mash ups from artists like David Guetta and Simple Minds and Jesse Jay and B.O.B all in the last dance number itself.

Midterm Post

Popular culture has many different themes. Themes such as time can change and it can also leave things the way they are like in the Marlboro reading where the Marlboro man had changed over time and the way the portrayed him did too but what the Marlboro man was trying to sell was the same through out the years and the comparing and contrasting between soccer and baseball.

The baseball and football discussion is one of the ones that I payed most attention to because I love sports and I could actually stay focused on it and grasp the concepts that some sports create feelings of war and anger such as football where as the others are all about getting out safe and alive like baseball.

Masculinity and Violenece

We encourage masculinity in our culture into almost everything like "real men aren't supposed to cry" and "just walk it off, you're fine." People say that violence is very important when it comes to the violence in men and boys but I personally don't believe it. Its all about how people are raised and the environment that they grew up in, its almost like pit-bulls and how they are raised and their environment as well.

The APA or American Psychological Association is concerned about the mental health of the boys in our society and the future repercussions that the violent video games will have on the boys who play them. The ACLU is all concerned about the constitution and what the bill of rights says, they are trying to get a bill passed directly through the government and bypass the agencies.

Football High

Football High was a documentary that we watched in class about a private football program that rose to a sort of fame with sponsors and big name high school athletes. The documentary was mainly focused on the impact of injuries and concussions on high school players of these bigger caliber teams later in life because of the material found in a 21 year-old deceased college football players brain after he committed suicide.

Issues brought up by the documentary was the need for athletic trainers and maybe even doctors on the team and they brought that point up with the two football players that had heat stroke and they were both treated differently because the knowledge of the trainers and coaches were very different. Another issue was the multiple concussions that weren't nearly as big as the diagnosed ones but were defiantly causing certain issues with players later in life and they brought this up with the player who committed suicide in college and had never been diagnosed with a concussion but had signs of multiple smaller impact concussions and the running back from Shiloh that they kept out of the game for a half after being diagnosed with a concussion but then put right back in after half time because it was a big game and it was close.

I think that the documentary asks us as viewers to think is the impact of the games that we force our children to play worth the short excitement of winning a couple games versus the repercussions of the fast paced and hard hitting game we know as football.