World is a Text, The: The Writing, Reading, and Thinking About Culture and Its Contexts
ISBN: 9780131931985 | 0131931989
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2006
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For courses in First Year Composition, Cultural Studies, Popular Culture, and Semiotics. The World is a Text is the most visual popular culture reader with the best coverage of writing. When Jonathan Silverman and Dean Rader commuted together, they often discussed the possibilities and challenges of teaching popular culture and composition. Not only did they want their students to read diverse texts about popular culture, but also they wanted to equip them to engage with popular culture and with each other directly for the goal of better writin... MORE
| African-American Issues | |
| American Sonnet | p. 74 |
| How Soaps Are Integrating America: Color TV | p. 121 |
| "Black Bart" Simpson: Appropriation and Revitalization in Commodity Culture | p. 155 |
| Shopping in a Mall While Black: A Coach's Story | p. 201 |
| New Urbanism Needs to Keep Racial Issues in Mind | p. 228 |
| Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? | p. 266 |
| ... MORE | p. 269 |
| Race Is a Four-Letter Word | p. 278 |
| Mock Feminism: Waiting to Exhale | p. 319 |
| An African-American Christian's View of Passion | p. 352 |
| Welcome to America's Finest Tourist Plantation | p. 527 |
| Klanswoman | p. 528 |
| A Boondocks Cartoon | p. 532 |
| Advertising and People of Color | p. 554 |
| Where Do You Want to Go Today? Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet, and Transnationality | p. 707 |
| Arab-American Issues | |
| Blood | p. 71 |
| Censoring Myself | p. 282 |
| Where Do You Want to Go Today? Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet, and Transnationality | p. 707 |
| Asian-American Issues | |
| The Visual Character of Chinatowns | p. 210 |
| Mother Tongue | p. 261 |
| America, Cowboys, the West, & Race (Interchapter) | p. 362 |
| No Name Woman | p. 448 |
| Advertising and People of Color | p. 554 |
| Where Do You Want to Go Today? Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet, and Transnationality | p. 707 |
| Student Essay: Mail Order Brides: The Content of Internet Courtship | p. 722 |
| Argumentative/Persuasive Essays | |
| TV Can Be a Good Parent | p. 112 |
| Student Essay: Society's Need for a Queer Solution: The Media's Reinforcement of Homophobia Through Traditional Gender Roles | p. 142 |
| Reality TV Bites-or Does It?: The New Soap Opera or the End of Civilization: A Point-Counterpoint | p. 169 |
| How Suburban Design Is Failing Teen-Agers | p. 217 |
| New Urbanism Needs to Keep Racial Issues in Mind | p. 228 |
| In Living Color: Race and American Culture | p. 251 |
| Let's Spread the Fun Around: The Issue of Sports Team Names and Mascots | p. 289 |
| Class and Virtue | p. 316 |
| Mock Feminism: Waiting to Exhale | p. 319 |
| Student Essay: Star Wars and America | p. 344 |
| Nailed | p. 349 |
| An African-American Christian's View of Passion | p. 352 |
| Gender Role Behavior and Attitudes | p. 406 |
| Why Chicks Dig Vampires: Sex, Blood and Buffy | p. 415 |
| America's Cinderella | p. 441 |
| Andy Warhol: The Most Controversial Artist of the Twentieth Century? | p. 489 |
| Is the NAMES Quilt Art? | p. 499 |
| Weasel Words | p. 569 |
| Student Essay: Sister Act (Sis-ter Akt) N. 1. A Destructive Form of Writing | p. 580 |
| Off Limits: Should Students Be Allowed to Hook Up with Professors? | p. 619 |
| Infuriating by Design: Everyday Things Need Not Wreak Havoc on Our Lives | p. 690 |
| Kill-for-Kicks Video Games Desensitizing Our Children | p. 701 |
| Student Essay: Hungry for a Scapegoat: A Rebuttal to John Leo's "Kill-for-Kicks Video Games Desensitizing Our Children" | p. 703 |
| Social and Economic Class | |
| Capitalist Poem #5 | p. 79 |
| Life According to TV | p. 115 |
| How Suburban Design Is Failing Teen-Agers | p. 217 |
| A White Migration North from Miami | p. 220 |
| A Remedy for the Rootlessness of Modern Suburban Life? | p. 225 |
| New Urbanism Needs to Keep Racial Issues in Mind | p. 228 |
| Growing Up, Growing Apart | p. 239 |
| Class and Virtue | p. 316 |
| The America the Media Don't Want You to See | p. 561 |
| "Coal Miner's Daughter" by Loretta Lynn | p. 661 |
| Comparison/Contrast | |
| How Soaps Are Integrating America: Color TV | p. 121 |
| Student Essay: Society's Need for a Queer Solution: The Media's Reinforcement of Homophobia Through Traditional Gender Roles | p. 142 |
| Spatial Segregation and Gender Stratification in the Workplace | p. 196 |
| The Sports Taboo | p. 269 |
| Mock Feminism: Waiting to Exhale | p. 319 |
| Deciphering I, Robot: Random Thoughts from an Evolving Film Reviewer | p. 338 |
| Marked Women, Unmarked Men | p. 402 |
| Construction of the Female Self: Feminist Readings of the Disney Heroine | p. 432 |
| Definitional Essays | |
| Andy Warhol: The Most Controversial Artist of the Twentieth Century? | p. 489 |
| Is the NAMES Quilt Art? | p. 499 |
| It Isn't Pretty...But Is It Art? | p. 519 |
| Mock Feminism: Waiting to Exhale | p. 319 |
| TV Can Be a Good Parent | p. 112 |
| Weasel Words | p. 569 |
| Class and Virtue | p. 316 |
| The Visual Character of Chinatowns | p. 210 |
| Qallunaat 101: Inuits Study White Folks in This New Academic Field | p. 276 |
| Student Essay: Can You Handle the Commitment?: Three Types of College Relationships | p. 613 |
| Boy Friend: Between Those Two Words, A Guy Can Get Crushed | p. 615 |
| Case Study: Harmful Hug? | p. 621 |
| Fun! | |
| Goodtime Jesus | p. 73 |
| My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun (Sonnet 130) | p. 73 |
| Bear in There | p. 75 |
| The Unknown | p. 78 |
| Capitalist Poem #5 | p. 79 |
| Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes | p. 82 |
| "Not That There's Anything Wrong with That": Reading the Queer in Seinfeld | p. 124 |
| Caught Looking: Problems with Taking Pictures of People Taking Pictures at an Exhibition | p. 206 |
| Qallunaat 101: Inuits Study White Folks in This New Academic Field | p. 276 |
| Images & Non-Traditional Texts | |
| The Visual Character of Chinatowns | p. 210 |
| True Tales of Amerikkkan History Part II: The True Thanksgiving | p. 265 |
| A Suite of Cartoons | |
| "Which One Is the Mascot?" | p. 303 |
| "But I'm Honoring You, Dude!" | p. 304 |
| "Pow Wow" | p. 305 |
| America, Cowboys, The West, & Race | p. 362 |
| Two Images of Gender | p. 364 |
| The Semiotics of Architecture | p. 366 |
| Flags | p. 367 |
| Laundry | p. 368 |
| Neighborhoods | p. 370 |
| Cars | p. 371 |
| Signs | p. 372 |
| Two Photos by Diane Arbus | p. 374 |
| Private Symbol/Public Space: The Virgin of Guadalupe | p. 376 |
| Two Murals by Rigo | p. 377 |
| Diners | p. 378 |
| Postcards from Texas | p. 379 |
| The American Signs on Route 66 Suite | p. 382 |
| Sequential Art: "Closure" and "Art" | p. 505 |
| Piss Christ | p. 526 |
| What Is the Proper Way to Display a US Flag? | p. 527 |
| Welcome to America's Finest Tourist Plantation | p. 527 |
| Klanswoman | p. 528 |
| Kissing Doesn't Kill | p. 529 |
| CityBank Posters | p. 529 |
| Our Lady | p. 531 |
| Yo Mama's Last Supper | p. 532 |
| A Boondocks Cartoon | p. 532 |
| International/Global Readings | |
| Ode to My Socks | p. 69 |
| My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun (Sonnet 130) | p. 73 |
| The Colonel | p. 76 |
| Being a Man | p. 411 |
| Ways of Seeing | p. 465 |
| Where Do You Want to Go Today? Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet, and Transnationality | p. 707 |
| Student Essay: Mail-Order Brides: The Content of Internet Courtship | p. 722 |
| Latino/Latina Issues | |
| The Colonel | p. 76 |
| How Soaps Are Integrating America: Color TV | p. 121 |
| A White Migration North from Miami | p. 220 |
| Race Is a Four-Letter Word | p. 278 |
| Flags | p. 367 |
| Private Symbol/Public Space: The Virgin of Guadalupe | p. 376 |
| You Would Have Me White | p. 413 |
| Our Lady | p. 531 |
| Yo Mama's Last Supper | p. 532 |
| Advertising and People of Color | p. 554 |
| Literature (Fiction, Literary Non-Fiction, and Poetry) | |
| Ode to My Socks | p. 69 |
| Goodtime Jesus | p. 73 |
| My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun (Sonnet 130) | p. 73 |
| American Sonnet | p. 74 |
| Bear in There | p. 75 |
| The Colonel | p. 76 |
| Harlem | p. 78 |
| The Unknown | p. 78 |
| Capitalist Poem #5 | p. 79 |
| Because I Could Not Stop for Death-Poem 712 | p. 80 |
| Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes | p. 82 |
| How to Read a Poem | p. 84 |
| The Resistance to Poetry | p. 90 |
| Mother Tongue | p. 261 |
| Two Poems by American Indians: Louise Erdrich, "Dear John Wayne" & Sherman Alexie, "My Heroes Have Never Been Cowboys" | p. 332 |
| You Would Have Me White | p. 413 |
| No Name Woman | p. 448 |
| Happy Endings | p. 596 |
| You Can Have It | p. 599 |
| Native American Issues | |
| True Tales of Amerikkkan History Part II: The True Thanksgiving | p. 265 |
| Qallunaat 101: Inuits Study White Folks in This New Academic Field | p. 276 |
| Let's Spread the Fun Around: The Issue of Sports Team Names and Mascots | p. 289 |
| "Black Bart" Simpson: Appropriation and Revitalization in Commodity Culture | p. 155 |
| Spatial Segregation and Gender Stratification in the Workplace | p. 196 |
| The Visual Character of Chinatowns | p. 210 |
| Student Essay: Reading the Nautical Star | p. 214 |
| In Living Color: Race and American Culture | p. 251 |
| Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? | p. 266 |
| Holy Homosexuality Batman!: Camp and Corporate Capitalism in Batman Forever | p. 326 |
| Gender Role Behaviors and Attitudes | p. 406 |
| Construction of the Female Self: Feminist Readings of the Disney Heroine | p. 432 |
| America's Cinderella | p. 441 |
| Ways of Seeing | p. 465 |
| Advertising and People of Color | p. 554 |
| Musical Cheese: The Appropriation of Seventies Music in Nineties Movies | p. 634 |
| Student Essay: Is Tupac Really Dead? | p. 645 |
| "Coal Miner's Daughter" by Loretta Lynn | p. 661 |
| Student Essay: "Smells Like Teen Spirit" | p. 657 |
| Cop Out? The Media, "Cop Killer," and the Deracialization of Black Rage (Constructing [Mis]Representations) | p. 669 |
| Infuriating by Design: Everyday Things Need Not Wreak Havoc on Our Lives | p. 690 |
| Where Do You Want to Go Today? Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet, and Transnationality | p. 707 |
| Student Essay: Mail-Order Brides: The Content of Internet Courtship | p. 722 |
| Young Adults/Teenagers/Children | |
| Bear in There | p. 75 |
| TV Can Be a Good Parent | p. 112 |
| Shopping in a Mall While Black: A Coach's Story | p. 201 |
| How Suburban Design Is Failing Teen-Agers | p. 217 |
| Growing Up, Growing Apart | p. 239 |
| True Tales of Amerikkkan History Part II: The True Thanksgiving | p. 265 |
| Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? | p. 266 |
| Construction of the Female Self: Feminist Readings of the Disney Heroine | p. 432 |
| The Coolhunt | p. 543 |
| Student Essay: Can You Handle the Commitment?: Three Types of College Relationships | p. 613 |
| Boy Friend: Between Those Two Words, A Guy Can Get Crushed | p. 615 |
| Off Limits: Should Students Be Allowed to Hook Up with Professors? | p. 619 |
| Case Study: Harmful Hug? | p. 621 |
| When Is It OK to Invite a Student to Dinner? | p. 624 |
| Student Essay: Is Tupac Really Dead? | p. 645 |
| Student Essay: "Smells Like Teen Spirit" | p. 657 |
| Kill-for-Kicks Video Games Desensitizing Our Children | p. 701 |
| Hungry for a Scapegoat: A Rebuttal to John Leo's "Kill-for-Kicks Video Games Desensitizing Our Children" | p. 703 |
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