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Common Culture : Reading and Writing about American Popular Culture

ISBN: 9780132202671 | 0132202670
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2007

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SummaryTable of Contents
From Barbie to the Internet, the Simpsons to the malls, this engaging book on pop culture can help readers develop writing skills while reading and thinking about subjects they find inherently interesting. It contains essays addressing pop culture topics along with suggestions for further reading. Topics covered in the essays include advertising, television, popular music, cyberculture, sports, and movies. Because of its several comprehensive indexes, this book is an excellent reference work for writers and analysts of popular culture.
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Prefaceix
1 Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture1(46)
What Is Popular Culture?
2(2)
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Why Study Popular Culture?
4(2)
Active Reading
6(16)
Strategies for Actively Reading a Text
7(1)
An Active Reading Casebook: Three Selections About Barbie
8(14)
Preparing to Read
9(1)
Reading and Annotating
9(1)
Barbie's Shoes, Hilary Tham
10(1)
Re-reading
10(1)
Reviewing
11(1)
Reading Pop Cultural Criticism
12(3)
The Indignation of Barbie, John Leo
13(2)
Reading Academic Analysis
15(12)
"Seen Through Rose-Tinted Glasses": The Barbie Doll in American Society, Marilyn Ferris Motz
16(6)
Reading Images
22(5)
Preparing to Read
22(1)
Reading and Annotating
23(2)
Re-reading
25(1)
Reviewing
26(1)
The Writing Process
27(20)
Prewriting
27(5)
Freewriting
28(1)
Clustering
29(1)
Outlining
29(3)
Drafting
32(5)
Thesis and Thesis Statement
32(1)
Opening Paragraphs
33(1)
Supporting Paragraphs
33(1)
Evidence
34(2)
Conclusions
36(1)
Distancing
37(1)
Revising
37(1)
Revision Checklist
38(1)
Writing Research on Popular Culture
39(3)
Modern Language Association Documentation Format
42(1)
American Psychological Association Documentation Format
43(1)
Sample Student Essay
44(7)
Role-Model Barbie: Now and Forever?
44(138)
Carolyn Muhlstein
2 Advertising47(97)
Approaches to Advertising
51(54)
The Cult You're In, Kalle Lasn
51(5)
Salespeak, Roy Fox
56(17)
Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals, Jib Fowles
73(18)
How Advertising Informs to Our Benefit, John E. Calfee
91(14)
Images of Women in Advertising
105(35)
You're Soaking In It, Jennifer L. Pozner
105(10)
Getting Dirty, Mark Crispin Miller
115(8)
Sex, Lies, and Advertising, Gloria Steinem
123(17)
Additional Suggestions for Writing About Advertising
140(4)
3 Television144(91)
The Cultural Influences of Television
146(36)
Spudding Out, Barbara Ehrenreich
146(3)
Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor, Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
149(9)
Life According to TV, Harry Waters
158(11)
Watching TV Makes You Smarter, Steven Johnson
169(13)
Interpreting Television
182(49)
1. Reality TV
182(19)
The Tribe Has Spoken, Rebecca Gardyn
182(11)
Keeping It Real: Why We Like to Watch Reality Dating Television Shows, Robert Samuels
193(8)
2. The Simpsons
201(36)
The Simpsons: Atomistic Politics and the Nuclear Family, Paul A. Cantor
201(18)
The Evolution of the Seven Deadly Sins: From God to the Simpsons, Lisa Frank
219(12)
Additional Suggestions for Writing About Television
231(4)
4 Popular Music235(102)
The Hip-Hop Generation
237(47)
Rap and Race: It's Got a Nice Beat, But What About the Message?, Rachel E. Sullivan
237(15)
The Miseducation of Hip-Hop, Evelyn Jamilah
252(9)
Pop Goes the Rapper: A Close Reading of Eminem's Genderphobia, Vincent Stephens
261(23)
Music and Contemporary Culture
284(50)
Marilyn Manson and the Apt Pupils of Littleton, Gary Burns
284(7)
The Money Note: Can the Record Business Be Saved?, John Seabrook
291(25)
I Hate Classical Music, Alex Ross
316(18)
Additional Suggestions for Writing About Popular Music
334(3)
5 Technology337(82)
Technology, Individuals, and Communities
339(33)
Breaking Down Borders: How Technology Transforms the Private and Public Realms, Robert Samuels
339(4)
Cyberhood vs. Neighborhood, John Perry Barlow
343(8)
Our Cell Phones, Ourselves, Christine Rosen
351(21)
Applications
372(43)
1. Video Games
372(27)
Let the Games Begin: Gaming Technology and Entertainment Among College Students, Steve Jones
372(13)
Playing War: The Emerging Trend of Real Virtual Combat in Current Video Games, Brian Cowlishaw
385(14)
2. Blogging
399(22)
Weblogs: A History and Perspective, Rebecca Blood
399(8)
Borg Journalism, John Hiler
407(8)
Additional Suggestions for Writing About Technology
415(4)
6 Sports419(102)
Sport in America, American Sports Across the Globe
421(60)
Fixing Kids' Sports, Peter Cary, Randy Dotinga, and Avery Comarow
421(11)
Baby, You're The Greatest, Tom Farrey
432(8)
Discipline and Push-Up: Female Bodies, Femininity, and Sexuality in Popular Representations of Sports Bras, Jaime Schultz
440(27)
Jack of Smarts: Why the Internet Generation Loves to Play Poker, Justin Peters
467(6)
World Games: The U.S. Tries to Colonize Sport, Tram Nguyen
473(8)
Sports, Stars, and Society
481(19)
Risk, Paul Roberts
481(10)
Life on the Edge, William Dowell and the Editors of Time Magazine
491(9)
Analyzing Sports
500(18)
Champion of the World, Maya Angelou
500(4)
Tiger Time: The Wonder of an American Hero, Jay Nordlinger
504(6)
Fields of Broken Dreams: Latinos and Baseball, Marcos Breton
510(8)
Additional Suggestions for Writing About Sports
518(3)
7 Movies521(104)
Film and American Culture
523(67)
The Way We Are, Sydney Pollack
523(10)
The Politics of Moviemaking, Saul Austerlitz
533(10)
The Asian Invasion (of Multiculturalism) in Hollywood, Minh-Ha Pham
543(22)
Fight Club: A Ritual Cure for the Spiritual Ailment of American Masculinity, Jethro Rothe-Kushel
565(25)
Tarantino and The Passion: A Controversy Casebook
590(32)
Pulp Fiction, Alan Stone
590(8)
She'll Kill Bill While You Chill, Thomas de Zengotita
598(8)
Nailed, David Denby
606(6)
Gibson's Sublime Passion: In Defense of the Violence, William Irwin
612(10)
Additional Suggestions for Writing About Movies
622(3)
For Further Reading: A Common Culture Bibliography625(6)
Acknowledgments631(5)
Index by Author and Title636(3)
Index by Academic Discipline639(2)
Index by Rhetorical Mode641

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