Reading Culture : Contexts for Critical Reading and Writing

by Diana Hume George; eorge; John Trimbur

ISBN13:

9780321015921

ISBN10:

0321015924

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Pub. Date:

1/1/1999

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Pearson College Div

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Acclaimed for its compelling readings and provocative images, Reading Culture provides students with outstanding instruction on how to read and write critically about the culture that surrounds them. & Benefits by examining how culture organizes social experiences andshapes our identities.& Reading the News, Storytelling, Topics on work, Public Space readings.& General Interest, Improving Writing

Visual Resources

xiii

(4)

Alternate Contents

xvii

(4)

Rhetorical Contents

xxi

(4)

Preface

xxv

(4)

Acknowledgments

xxix

Reading Culture: An Introduction

(4)

Chapter 1 Reading and Writing about Culture: THE CASE OF DAYTIME TALK TV

(35)

Defining the Genre of Daytime Talk TV

(1)

JANE M. SHATTUC

"The Talking Cure: TV Talk Shows and Women"

(1)

Reading the Image of Daytime Talk TV

(8)

Strategies for Watching Daytime Talk TV

(1)

Content, Guests, and Audience

(1)

Set Design, Spacial Arrangement, and Camera Space

(2)

The Viewing Audience

(4)

Learning from Viewers about Daytime Talk TV

(3)

Suggested Assignment for Learning from Viewers

(1)

Conducting Interviews

(2)

Presenting Your Findings

(1)

Suggestions for Group Presentations

(1)

Checking Out the Web

(1)

Reading about Daytime Talk TV

(3)

Reading Strategies

(1)

Reading and Writing Exercises

(1)

Suggestions for Underlining

(1)

Suggestions for Annotating

(1)

Suggestions for Summarizing

(1)

KEITH BRADSHER

"Talk-Show Guest Is Guilty of Second-Degree Murder"

(3)

BOB HERBERT

"Daytime TV's Child Porn"

(3)

Suggestions for Exploratory Writing

(1)

WILLIAM BENNETT

"Announcing a Public Campaign Against Select Day-Time Television Talk Shows"

(1)

DONNA GAINES

"How Jenny Jones Saved My Life. Why William Bennett Is Wrong about Trash TV"

(5)

Suggestions for Writing a Synthesis

(1)

ELLEN WILLIS

"Bring in the Noise"

(3)

Writing about the Culture of Daytime Talk TV

(1)

Conclusion

(1)

A Few Words on Checking Out the Web

(1)

Chapter 2 Generations

(60)

Reading the Culture of Generations

(1)

GLORIA NAYLOR

"Kiswana Browne"

(8)

DAVE MARSH

"Fortunate Son"

(9)

LAWRENCE GROSSBERG

"Youth and American Identity"

(4)

DONNA GAINES

"Teenage Wasteland"

(4)

MIKE A. MALES

"The Scapegoat Generation"

(11)

THOMAS HINE

"TV's Teenagers: An Insecure, World-Weary Lot"

(4)

Checking Out the Web

(1)

Visual Culture Representations of Youth Culture in Movies

(2)

JAMES GILBERT

"Juvenile Delinquency Films"

(6)

Field Work Ethnographic Interviews

(1)

SUSAN D. CRAFT

DANIEL CAVICCHI

CHARLES KEIL

"My Music"

(6)

Field Work Project

(2)

Editing

(1)

Writing an Introduction

(1)

Further Explorations Naming Generations

(1)

Chapter 3 Schooling

100

(63)

Reading the Culture of Schooling

102

(1)

THEODORE R. SIZER

"What High School Is"

102

(9)

Checking Out the Web

111

(1)

MIKE ROSE

"Crossing Boundaries"

111

(8)

MYRA

DAVID SADKER

"Sexism in the Schoolroom"

119

(5)

MICHAEL MOFFATT

"How College Students Choose Majors"

124

(8)

MIN-ZHAN LU

"From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle"

132

(10)

JUNE JORDAN

"Nobody Mean More to Me Than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan"

142

(12)

Visual Culture Picturing Schooldays

154

(1)

Vectors

154

(2)

Perspective

156

(1)

Suggested Assignment

157

(1)

Field Work Classroom Observation

157

(1)

Field Log

158

(1)

Background

158

(1)

Field Notes

158

(1)

Analysis

159

(1)

Writing the Report

159

(1)

Introduction

159

(1)

Method

159

(1)

Observations

159

(1)

Conclusions

159

(1)

WORTH ANDERSON ET AL.

Observations and Conclusions from "Cross-Curricular Underlife: A Collaborative Report on Ways with Academic Words"

160

(2)

Further Explorations College Publicity

162

(1)

Chapter 4 Images

163

(45)

Reading Images

170

(1)

STUART

ELIZABETH EWEN

"In the Shadow of the Image"

171

(7)

JEAN KILBOURNE

"Beauty...and the Beast of Advertising"

178

(3)

Visual Essay It's a Woman Thing

181

(5)

Checking Out the Web

186

(1)

ARTHUR ASA BERGER

"Sex as Symbol in Fashion Advertising" and "Analyzing Signs and Sign Systems"

186

(8)

Visual Essay The Look of the Page

194

(3)

Visual Essay Public Health Messages

197

(5)

Visual Essay Rewriting the Image

202

(4)

Further Explorations The Case of Joe Camel

206

(2)

Chapter 5 Style

208

(38)

Reading Style

210

(1)

WENDY CHAPKIS

"Dress as Success: Joolz"

211

(4)

Checking Out the Web

215

(1)

HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.

"In the Kitchen"

216

(4)

BELL HOOKS

"Straightening Our Hair"

220

(7)

JOHN MOLLOY

"Dress for Success"

227

(5)

DICK HEBDIGE

"Style in Revolt: Revolting Style"

232

(4)

Visual Culture Pumped Up

236

(1)

RICHARD LEPPERT

"The Male Nude"

236

(5)

Field Work Writing a Questionnaire

241

(1)

Suggestions for Designing a Questionnaire

242

(1)

Report on Your Findings

242

(1)

Further Explorations Urban Chic and Streetwise Looks

243

(3)

Chapter 6 Public Space

246

(39)

Reading the Culture of Public Space

247

(1)

GARRISON KEILLOR

"State Fair"

248

(4)

EDWARD ABBEY

"The First Morning" and "Labor Day"

252

(5)

JOHN FISKE

"Shopping for Pleasure: Malls, Power, and Resistance"

257

(5)

Checking Out the Web

262

(1)

ROBYN MEREDITH

"Big Mall's Curfew Raises Questions of Rights and Bias"

262

(4)

MIKE DAVIS

"Fortress Los Angeles: The Militarization of Urban Space"

266

(6)

EVA SPERLING COCKCROFT

HOLLY BARNET-SANCHEZ

"Signs from the Heart: California Chicano Murals"

272

(7)

Visual Culture Claiming Interpretive Space

279

(3)

Field Work Collaborating on an Observation of Public Space

282

(1)

Mapping the Space

282

(1)

Taking Notes

282

(1)

Watching People

282

(1)

Asking Questions

282

(1)

Writing Up Your Findings

282

(1)

Further Explorations Tracing the Image of the Western Landscape

283

(2)

Chapter 7 Storytelling

285

(63)

Reading the Culture of Storytelling

286

(1)

MAXINE HONG KINGSTON

"No Name Woman"

287

(8)

SHIRLEY BRICE HEATH

"Oral Traditions"

295

(10)

JAN HAROLD BRUNVAND

"The Hook' and Other Teenage Horrors"

305

(9)

Checking Out the Web

314

(1)

STEPHEN KING

"Why We Crave Horror Movies"

315

(2)

ELLA TAYLOR

"TV Families: Three Generations of Packaged Dreams"

317

(10)

MARK CRISPIN MILLER

"Deride and Conquer"

327

(8)

ELAYNE RAPPING

"In Praise of Roseanne"

335

(5)

Visual Culture Television Sitcoms

340

(2)

Field Work The Active Audience

342

(1)

HENRY JENKINS

"Television Fans"

343

(4)

Field Work Project

347

(1)

Further Explorations Popular Fictions

347

(1)

Chapter 8 Work

348

(49)

Reading the Culture of Work

349

(1)

SANDRA CISNEROS

"The First Job"

350

(2)

RICK BRAGG

"Pride and Its Discontents"

352

(9)

ROBERT J. SAMUELSON

"Downsizing Isn't All That Heartless"

361

(2)

MANNING MARABLE

"Fighting for a Decent Wage"

363

(3)

JULIET B. SCHOR

"The Overworked American"

366

(5)

ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD

"Work: The Great Escape"

371

(10)

SCOTT ADAMS

"The Dilbert Principle"

381

(4)

Checking Out the Web

385

(1)

Visual Culture Lewis Hine and the Social Uses of Photography

385

(4)

Field Work Reconstructing the Network of a Workplace

389

(1)

JAMES P. SPRADLEY

BRENDA J. MANN

"The Cocktail Waitress"

389

(5)

Field Work Project

394

(2)

Background

394

(1)

Analysis: Reconstructing the Social Network of the Workplace

395

(1)

Conclusion

395

(1)

Further Explorations Sweatshops Today: Child Labor in the Nineties

396

(1)

Chapter 9 History

397

(65)

Reading the Culture of History

399

(1)

MARY GORDON

"More Than Just a Shrine: Paying Homage to the Ghosts of Ellis Island"

400

(4)

JAMAICA KINCAID

"Columbus in Chains"

404

(5)

JANE TOMPKINS

"Indians': Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History"

409

(15)

GEORGE B. TINDALL

DAVID E. SHI

"The Tragedy of Vietnam"

424

(3)

LOREN BARITZ

"God's Country and American Know-How"

427

(8)

Checking Out the Web

435

(1)

LE LY HAYSLIP

"When Heaven and Earth Changed Places"

435

(5)

WALLACE TERRY

"Private First Class Reginald `Malik' Edwards"

440

(9)

MOLLY IVINS

"A Short Story About the Vietnam War Memorial"

449

(2)

Visual Culture Photographing History

451

(3)

ALAN TRACHTENBERG

"Reading American Photographs"

454

(1)

Visual Essay The Vietnam War

455

(3)

Field Work Oral History

458

(1)

Choosing a Subject

459

(1)

Interviewing

459

(1)

Writing the Oral History

459

(1)

Field Work Project

460

(1)

Further Explorations Public History

460

(2)

Chapter 10 Multicultural America

462

(65)

Reading Multicultural America

464

(1)

ISHMAEL REED

"America: The Multinational Society"

464

(4)

ALEJANDRO PORTES

ALEX STEPICK

"Miami: City on the Edge"

468

(6)

ADRIENNE RICH

"Split at the Root: An Essay on Jewish Identity"

474

(9)

GLORIA ANZALDUA

"How to Tame a Wild Tongue"

483

(9)

ELAINE H. KIM

"Home Is Where the `Han' Is: A Korean-American Perspective on the Los Angeles Upheavals"

492

(14)

MARY LOUISE PRATT

"Arts of the Contact Zone"

506

(13)

Case Study English Only Legislation

519

(1)

Proposition 63, California State Budget, 1986

519

(5)

Visual Culture Language Policy

524

(3)

Text Credits

527

(4)

Photo Credits

531

(2)

Index

533

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