Guffey “Wow. Battle looks completely different when you’re in the middle of it than it does to the generals up on the hill!”—Woody Allen, Love and Death Popular culture studies assume that any given cultural element is both product of and a reflection on the time period in which it was produced. This idea lies at the core of the so-called “Popular Culture Formula” which “states that the popularity of a given cultural element ... is directly proportional to the degree to which that element is reflective of audience beliefs and values” (Nachbar and Lause 5). With the advent of cable networks and niche programming, television became a means to refine such cultural inquiries by presenting scholars with cultural elements that were popular with smaller audiences and therefore provided a more nuanced view of a given time. For the historian, such windows into the recent cultural past allow a rare opportunity to gauge the reaction of the too-often historically silent majority of the population to the events of their time.
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