ШEПАРД И ПОПУЛАРНА КУЛТУРА
SHEPARD AND POPULAR CULTURE

Summary/Abstract: By the mass of ordinary people, popular culture today is usually understood as a way of living and thinking and it finds its best expression in massive propaganda mainly in the world of fashion, music and film. The kind of world which is divided between disgraceful wealth on one side and poverty on the other, rude force, indifference and aimless violence characterize new popular mythology emerging in America as its focal point and spreading further all over the world. A play True West by an American playwright Sam Shepard will be analyzed in the following paper as a critique of the society where proper measure is money, and in which true values are only those that bring profit. The play dwells on the question of commercialization of art and regression of the American dream but also the demystification of falseness and artificiality of the world unrelated to proper reality or any moral codes whatsoever.

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