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Common Culture : Reading and Writing about American Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780132998017 | 0132998017
Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional Technical ReferencePub. Date: 1/1/1995
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From Barbie to the internet, this inherently interesting book spans a full range of pop culture topics from a variety of theoretical perspectives, and helps users develop their critical and analytical skills and write clear and effective prose while reading, thinking, and writing about television, pop music, movies, and other media-generated artifacts.
Provides Key reading and writing strategies, and detailed instruction in thinking critically and writing persuasively about pop-cultural issues. Features 'casebooks' on certain pop-cultural phenomena, such as the Barbie Doll, rap and hip-hop music, horror movies and virtual communities. Explores cyberculture, the internet, and the information revolution, and includes new essays on the 'pro-advertising' perspective, the pop/hip group Rage Against the Machine, the popular sitcom 'Seinfeld', and more.
| Reading and Writing about American Popular Culture | |
| What Is Popular Culture? Why Study Popular Culture? Active Reading | |
| Strategies for Active Reading | |
| An Active Reading Casebook: Three Selections about Barbie | |
| Preparing to Read | |
| Reading and Annotating | |
| Barbie's Shoes, Hilary Tham | |
| Rereading | |
| Reviewing | |
| Readin... MORE | |
| The Indignation of Barbie | |
| Reading Academic Analysis | |
| 'Seen Through Rose-Tinted Glasses': The Barbie Doll in American Society | |
| Reading Images | |
| Preparing to Read | |
| Reading and Annotating | |
| Re-reading | |
| Reviewing | |
| The Writing Process | |
| Prewriting | |
| Freewriting | |
| Clustering | |
| Outlining | |
| Drafting | |
| Thesis and Thesis Statement | |
| Opening Paragraphs | |
| Supporting Paragraphs | |
| Evidence | |
| Conclusions | |
| Distancing | |
| Revising | |
| Revision Checklist | |
| Writing Research on Popular Culture | |
| Modern Language Association Documentation Format | |
| American Psychological Association Documentation Format | |
| Sample Student Essay | |
| Role-Model Barbie: Now and Forever? Carolyn Muhlstein | |
| Advertising | |
| Approaches to Advertising | |
| The Cult You're In | |
| Salespeak | |
| Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals | |
| How Advertising Informs to Our Benefit | |
| Virtual Product Placement | |
| Images of Women and Men in Advertising | |
| You're Soaking In It | |
| Getting Dirty | |
| Sex, Lies, and Advertising | |
| Additional Suggestions for Writing about Advertising | |
| Television | |
| The Cultural Influences of Television | |
| Spudding Out | |
| Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor | |
| Life According to TV | |
| Interactive Television: Is It Coming or Not? | |
| Interpreting Television | |
| Reality TV | |
| The Tribe Has Spoken | |
| Keeping It Real | |
| The Simpsons | |
| The Simpsons: Atomistic Politics and the Nuclear Family | |
| Cantor | |
| The Evolution of the Seven Deadly Sins: From God to the Simpsons | |
| Additional Suggestions for Writing about Television | |
| Popular Music | |
| Stars and Fans: Constructions of Culture and Counter-Culture | |
| I'm Just a Louisiana Girl: The Southern World of Britney Spears | |
| Napster: Catalyst for a New Industry or Just Another Dot.com? | |
| Marilyn Manson and the Apt Pupils of Littleton | |
| Deadheads Yesterday and Today: An Audience Study | |
| Rap and Hip-Hop: A Casebook | |
| Hip-Hop Nation: There's More to Rap Than Just Rhythms and Rhymes | |
| The Miseducation of Hip-Hop | |
| Age Ain't Nothing But a Number | |
| Additional Suggestions for Writing about Popular Music | |
| Cyberculture | |
| Virtual Selves and Communities | |
| The Self in the Age of Information | |
| Cyberhood vs. Neighborhood | |
| Virtuality and Its Discontents | |
| Bla | |
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