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Popular Objects and Artifacts
FAST-US-7 United States Popular Culture (Hopkins)
Department of Translation Studies, University of Tampere

Popular objects and artifacts include people, products, foods, clothing, tools, proportions, etc. (historical or current), which have symbolic or representative value or meaning well beyond their ‘ordinary’ usage —becoming ‘concepts’ in their own right.
Following are a few examplesFilm actors/actresses/directors/genres (historic; genre or “type”identification): Boris Karloff, Rock Hudson & Doris Day, Spencer Tracy & Katherine Hepburn, Rambo movies,

Disney movies, Marx brothers movies, Frank Capra movies, John Ford movies, Billy Wilder movies, etc.