As it turned out, it was a quick traverse from "revolution grrrl-style now" to "girl power," as Riot Grrrls gave way to Spice Girls and the dominant pop-culture narrative about femininity went the way of "Sex and the City".
Her analysis of the repetitious themes in Taliban magazines and DVDs — the recapitulation of Guantánamo imprisonment stories as folk culture narrative; the amplification of Pashtun grievances around ethnic revenge killings and notoriously corrupt figures such as the Uzbek commander General Dostum — is particularly chilling.
These aren't trifling questions: If we don't have a sense of what the Atrians lost and what they want, it's hard to care about them or the clash-of-cultures narrative.
Prenuptial jitters and the paranormal, two staples of pop culture narratives, are coupled uneasily in "Sex Lives of Our Parents," a new comedy by Michael Mitnick at the McGinn Cazale Theater as part of the Second Stage Theater's uptown series.
More interesting is the general ambience of sensitive, saviorlike youth struggling against evil, obviously including stereotypes of masculine heterosexuality, the latter insidiously reinforced by the very pop culture narratives invoked here.
To a country raised on pop culture narratives, it sounds great.
God didn't need more angels in Heaven; human beings and angels are unrelated, despite our pop culture narratives.
In taking on a well-known property from so long ago, the "Goosebumps" film addresses questions about the durability of once-dominant brands, not to mention the importance of pop-culture narratives in retailing movies generally.
For most of us who fall prey to ascribing to that bullshit on a bad day all of us really the growing number of pop-culture narratives remind us that we can be far better, and more dope than we ever imagined ourselves to be.
What sets out to be an expansive mini-epic, crossing continents, cultures and narrative forms, manages to keep its many twists and turns intact against the substantial weight of myriad structural pressures.
Conservatives have gravitated toward the culture war narrative, dividing the country between the wholesome masses and the decadent cultural elites.
