The Pop Culture Zone Writing Critically about Popular Culture
ISBN: 9781428205062 | 1428205063
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 6/19/2008
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Why bring pop culture into the composition classroom? Because it’s something you know and can get passionate about. THE POP CULTURE ZONE: WRITING CRITICALLY ABOUT POPULAR CULTURE focuses on your relationship with pop culture--such as film, television, popular books, and advertisements--and how that relationship can help you become a more critical reader and writer. The authors of this book use pop culture as the bridge between your life and the critical reading, thinking, and writing that are part of freshman composition to help you learn the rules of formal writing as well as more familiar forms of persuasion. You’ll learn to summarize your views effectively, listen to viewpoints that are different from your own, compare and contrast, and present ideas in a way that creates a continuing conversation of ideas.
| Introduction to Writing About Popular Culture | |
| The Pop Culture Zone | |
| Writing in the Pop Culture Zone | |
| Synthesis | |
| Defining Pop Culture | |
| The Oprah Effect | |
| The Content Zone | |
| Writing about Advertisements | |
| Sample Essay: Advertising: Keeping Sexism Alive | |
| Reading Selections: The 70s | |
| After ... MORE | |
| My Father+s Closet, John Seabrook | |
| Reading Selections: The 80s. Marketing in Color: New Niches Flow into the Mainstream | |
| Keep Ads Out of Books | |
| Reading Selections: The 90s | |
| Profitability, Diversity, and Disability Images in Advertising in the United States and Great Britain | |
| Constructed Bodies, Deconstructing Ads: Sexism in Advertising | |
| Reading Selections: The 00s. Ads Ad Nauseum | |
| No Escape from Ads, Even in the Backseat | |
| The Battle for Advertising: Internet Giants Get Ready for Full Combat | |
| Reading Selections: Across the Decades | |
| Defining Trade Characters and Their Role in American Popular Culture | |
| Merchandising Madness: Pills, Promises, and Better Living Through Chemistry | |
| Writing about Film | |
| Sample Essay: 1968 | |
| Resonates in 2004: 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Devolution of the Science Fiction Film | |
| Reading Selections: The 70s | |
| May the Force Be With You, and You, and You+ | |
| What is the Godfather Saying? | |
| The Pleasures of Disappointment: Sequels and the Godfather, Part II | |
| Reading Selections: The 80s | |
| John Hughes Goes Deep: The Unexpected Heaviosity of Ferris Bueller+s Day Off | |
| Reading Selections: The 90s | |
| Revelations | |
| Reading Selections: A Case Study from the 00s | |
| Fahrenheit 9/11: Review | |
| Movie Review: Fahrenheit 9/11 | |
| Sub-par Propaganda | |
| Reading Selections: Across the Decades | |
| Disney+s Dolls | |
| Why I+m Not Bored | |
| Alfred Hitchcock: A Hank of Hair and a Piece of Bone | |
| Writing about Groups, Spaces, and Places | |
| Sample Essay: You+re the Tops | |
| Reading Selections: The 70s | |
| Disco Dance Introduction | |
| The Ship Shape | |
| Reading Selections: The 80s | |
| Mallingering | |
| Reagan-Bush at 9: Passing on the Legacy of Shame | |
| Reading Selections: The 90s | |
| Black Sorority Boom: Ninety Years After the First Group Was Founded, Membership and Enthusiasm Are Thriving | |
| Bold New City or Built-Up +Burb+? Redefining Contemporary Suburbia | |
| Reading Selections: The 00s | |
| NASCAR Racing Fans: Cranking Up an Empirical Approach | |
| The National Storytelling Festival | |
| A Case Study | |
| Paradise Ruined: A Guidebook Writer+s Lament | |
| Greetings from the Florida Keys and Key West, The Monroe County Tourist Development Council. Margaritaville | |
| More Key West Hotels Going Offline | |
| Reading Selections: Across the Decades | |
| Hitler Did Fine, I Can Do Better | |
| Ladies of the White Gloves: Riding with Pride, Dianna Baldwin | |
| Job Corps, AmeriCorps, and Peace Corps: An Overview, Kevin M. McCarron | |
| Writing about Music | |
| Sample Essay: The Triple-Threat Folk Hero | |
| Reading Selections: The 70s | |
| Bob Marley: Music Man with a Mission | |
| Crossing the Border | |
| Reading Selections: The 80s. Controversy | |
| Reading Selections: The 90s | |
| Romancing the Record: The Vinyl De-Evolution and Sub-cultural Evolution | |
| Rap of the Ages: Tracking the Highs and Lows of Nearly 20 Years | |
| Within You, Without You: The Guitarist+s Search for Spiritual Meaning | |
| Reading Selections: The 00s. Static Minds | |
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