The power of pop culture imagination

Friday, November 17, 2017

James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster Titanic’s fascinating tale is still alluring audiences. On a boat at Sedudu Island Mmegi Staffer MOMPATI TLHANKANE recently observed that the movie’s pop culture still lives on 20 years later

I remember very well how the movie influenced pop culture and how we used to stare at Titanic pictures on playing cards. At the time I had not watched the movie and could not understand what the pop culture was all about.

According to Tim Delaney of Philosophynow, pop culture is generally recognised as the vernacular or people’s culture that predominates in a society at a point in time.

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