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Preface | p. ix |
Reading and writing About American Popular Culture | p. 1 |
What Is Popular Culture? | p. 2 |
Why Study Popular Culture? | p. 4 |
Active Reading | p. 6 |
Strategies for Actively Reading a Text | p. 7 |
An Active Reading Casebook: Three Selections About Barbie | p. 8 |
Preparing to Read | p. 9 |
Reading and Annotating | p. 9 |
Barbie's Shoes | p. 10 |
Rereading | p. 10 |
Reviewing | p. 11 |
Reading Pop Cultural Criticism | p. 12 |
The Indignation of Barbie | p. 12 |
Reading Academic Analysis | p. 15 |
"Seen Through Rose-Tinted Glasses": The Barbie Doll in American Society | p. 15 |
Reading Images | p. 21 |
Preparing to Read | p. 22 |
Reading and Annotating | p. 23 |
Rereading | p. 24 |
Reviewing | p. 25 |
The Writing Process | p. 26 |
Prewriting | p. 27 |
Freewriting | p. 27 |
Clustering | p. 28 |
Outlining | p. 29 |
Drafting | p. 31 |
Thesis and Thesis Statement | p. 31 |
Opening Paragraphs | p. 32 |
Supporting Paragraphs | p. 32 |
Evidence | p. 33 |
Conclusions | p. 35 |
Distancing | p. 36 |
Revising | p. 36 |
Revision Checklist | p. 37 |
Writing Research on Popular Culture | p. 38 |
Modern Language Association Documentation Format | p. 41 |
American Psychological Association Documentation Format | p. 42 |
Sample Student Essay | p. 43 |
Role-Model Barbie: Now and Forever? | p. 43 |
Advertising | p. 46 |
Approaches to Advertising | p. 49 |
The Cult You're In | p. 49 |
Salespeak | p. 54 |
Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals | p. 71 |
How Advertising Informs to Our Benefit | p. 89 |
Gender in Advertising | p. 102 |
You're Soaking In It | p. 102 |
Beefcake and Cheesecake: Insights for Advertisers | p. 112 |
Television | p. 135 |
The Cultural Influences of Television | p. 137 |
Life According to TV | p. 137 |
Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor | p. 147 |
Watching TV Makes You Smarter | p. 156 |
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus | p. 168 |
Infotainment | p. 175 |
Losing Our Religion | p. 175 |
Amusing Ourselves to Death with Television News: Jon Stewart, Neil Postman, and the Huxleyan Warning | p. 191 |
"'Fake" News versus "Real" News as Sources of Political Information: The Daily Show and Postmodern Political Reality," | p. 201 |
Popular Music | p. 227 |
Is Hip-Hop Dead? | p. 229 |
Rap and Race: It's Got a Nice Beat, But What About the Message? | p. 229 |
The Miseducation of Hip-Hop | p. 244 |
5 Things That Killed Hip-Hop | p. 253 |
Music and Contemporary Culture | p. 263 |
The Money Note: Can the Record Business Be Saved? | p. 263 |
"Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf": Youth and Music Consumption in the Postmodern Age | p. 288 |
Sex and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll: Urban Legends and Popular Music | p. 310 |
In Perfect Harmony: Popular Music and Cola Advertising | p. 328 |
Technology | p. 357 |
Technology, Individuals, and Communities | p. 359 |
Breaking Down Borders: How Technology Transforms the Private and Public Realms | p. 359 |
The Judgment of Thamus | p. 363 |
Applications | p. 377 |
Gaming | p. 377 |
The Labor of Fun: How Video Games Blur the Boundaries of Work and Play | p. 377 |
Good Video Games, the Human Mind, and Good Learning | p. 383 |
Facebook, MySpace, and Social Networking | p. 408 |
You Have Been Poked: Exploring the Uses and Gratifications of Facebook Among Emerging Adults | p. 408 |
Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life | p. 422 |
Sports and Games | p. 453 |
Sport, Stars, and Society | p. 455 |
Life on the Edge | p. 455 |
Champion of the World | p. 464 |
The Unbeautiful Game | p. 468 |
Discipline and Push-Up: Female Bodies, Femininity, and Sexuality in Popular Representations of Sports Bras | p. 480 |
Games We Play | p. 508 |
Jack of Smarts: Why the Internet Generation Loves to Play Poker | p. 508 |
The Search for Marvin Gardens | p. 513 |
The Meaning of Life | p. 524 |
Fixing Kids' Sports | p. 537 |
Movies | p. 550 |
Film and American Culture | p. 552 |
The Way We Are | p. 552 |
The Politics of Moviemaking | p. 562 |
Raising the Dead: Unearthing the Nonliterary Origins of Zombie Cinema | p. 572 |
Apatow and Tarantino: Two Contemporary Filmmakers | p. 591 |
A Fine Romance | p. 591 |
Freaks, Geeks, and Mensches: Judd Apatow's Comedies of the Mature | p. 603 |
Pulp Fiction | p. 609 |
She'll Kill Bill While You Chill | p. 617 |
For Further Reading: A Common Culture Bibliography | p. 627 |
Acknowledgments | p. 633 |
Index by Author and Title | p. 637 |
Index by Rhetorical Mode | p. 640 |
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