A cultura pop enquanto representação do seu tempo: um estudo sobre os paradigmas do imaginário contextual estadunidense na década de 1980

Abstract

Based on pop culture as a universal representation of human understanding, which stems from an interpretation process fed by the contextual imaginary of its time, this thesis aims to demonstrate how American pop culture in the 1980s reacted to the political/cultural scenario of Cold War, reproducing paradigms that concatenated with the tensions of a reactive conservatism, which marked the Ronald Reagan government, based on the analysis of the first season of the Macgyver series (1985-1986); the graphic novel Watchmen (1986-1987) and the three films of the Rambo series (produced, respectively, in the years 1982, 1985 and 1988).