Reading Culture: Contexts for Critical Reading And Writing

by George, Diana; Trimbur, John

• ISBN13: 9780321391698
• ISBN10: 0321391691
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Visual Resources	xi
Alternate Contents	xiii
Preface	xvi
Introduction: Reading Culture	1	(2)
Reading Culture---Getting Started	3	(1)
Raymond Williams, ``Culture Is Ordinary''	4	(3)
A Guide to Visual Analysis	7	(6)
Reading the News	13	(51)
Where Do People Get Their News?	14	(1)
``Young America's News Source: Jon Stewart''	14	(4)
Reading Visual Displays of Information	18	(3)
Reading Television News	21	(10)
Analyzing Content and Audience in Television News	22	(1)
Terms to Keep in Mind as You Read Television News	23	(3)
Analyzing Visual and Verbal Codes	26	(2)
A Guide to Visual and Verbal Codes	28	(3)
Reading Newspapers	31	(5)
The Look of the Front Page: Analyzing Visual Design	32	(3)
Continuing News: Covering a Story	35	(1)
Reading About the News: Reporting War	36	(2)
Reading Strategies	36	(1)
Knowing What You Read	37	(1)
The New York Times Editors, ``The Times and Iraq''	38	(4)
Amy Goodman and David Goodman, ``Un-Embed the Media''	42	(1)
Aaron Barnhart, ``Embedded Journalists Offer Riveting Reporting''	43	(1)
Joe Sacco, ``Complacency Kills''	44	(9)
Wired Culture: Reporting War in the Blogosphere	53	(5)
Howard Kurtz, ```Webloggers' Signing On as War Correspondents''	53	(3)
Reading Web Sites	56	(2)
Frank Rich, ``The Nightly Nascar News: Anchorman Get Your Gun''	58	(4)
Writing About the News	62	(1)
Looking Ahead	63	(1)
Generations	64	(65)
Gloria Naylor, ``Kiswana Browne''	66	(8)
Arlie Russell Hochschild, ``Gen (Fill in the Blank): Coming of Age, Seeking an Identity''	74	(4)
Thomas Hine, ``Goths in Tomorrowland''	78	(6)
Sharon Jayson, ``It's Time to Grow Up---Later''	84	(4)
Margaret Morganroth Gullette, ``Trapped in Decline Culture''	88	(3)
Wired Culture: Instant Messaging	91	(3)
Conor Boyland, ``Confessions of an Instant Messenger''	92	(2)
Perspectives: The New Momism: Interviews with Susan J. Douglas and Judith Warner	94	(12)
The Mommy Mystique: An Interview with Susan J. Douglas by Amy Reiter	95	(5)
Mommy Madness: An Interview with Judith Warner by Katy Read	100	(6)
Classic Reading
Margaret Mead, ``We Are All Third Generation''	106	(8)
Visual Culture: Representations of Youth Culture in Movies	114	(6)
James Gilbert, ``Juvenile Delinquency Films''	114	(6)
Film Clip: Hollywood Stars: Brando, Dean, and Monroe	120	(2)
Fieldwork: Ethnographic Interviews	122	(6)
Susan D. Craft, Daniel Cavicchi, and Charles Keil, ``My Music''	122	(6)
Mining the Archive: Life Magazine	128	(1)
Schooling	129	(69)
Theodore R. Sizer, ``What High School Is''	131	(8)
Leon Botstein, ``Let Teenagers Try Adulthood''	139	(3)
Mike Rose, ``Crossing Boundaries''	142	(7)
Thinking About Textbooks: Sex Education	149	(1)
Min-zhan Lu, ``From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle''	150	(10)
June Jordan, ``Nobody Mean More to Me Than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan''	160	(10)
Wired Culture: PowerPoint	170	(3)
Edward R. Tufte, ``PowerPoint Is Evil''	170	(3)
Perspectives: Gender Gap	173	(7)
Lawrence Summers Remarks on Diversifying the Science and Engineering Workforce (Web link)	174	(1)
Katha Pollitt, ``Summers of Our Discontent''	174	(2)
Christina Hoff Sommers, ``Where Do Boys Fit In?''	176	(4)
Classic Reading
Lisa Delpit, ``Skills and Other Dilemmas of a Progressive Black Educator''	180	(6)
Visual Culture: Picturing Schooldays	186	(4)
Film Clip: Reading and Writing About Film: Reviews, Histories, Criticism	190	(2)
Fieldwork: Classroom Observation	192	(5)
Observations and Conclusions from ``Cross-Curricular Underlife: A Collaborative Report on Ways with Academic Words''	194	(3)
Mining the Archive: Textbooks from the Past	197	(1)
Images	198	(52)
Stuart Ewen and Elizabeth Ewen, ``In the Shadow of the Image''	205	(6)
Suggestions for Reading Advertising	210	(1)
Michael F. Jacobson and Laurie Anne Mazur, ``The Iron Maiden: How Advertising Portrays Women''	211	(8)
Visual Essay: Reading the Gaze---Gender Roles in Advertising	219	(4)
Visual Essay: Rewriting the Image	223	(4)
Visual Essay: Public Health Messages	227	(4)
Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, ``When You Meet Estella Smart, You Been Met!''	231	(4)
Wired Culture: Photographic Truth in a Digital Age	235	(3)
Brian Bergstein, ``Digital Photography Poses Thorny Issues for Justice System	236	(2)
Classic Reading
James Agee, ``A Way of Seeing: An Introduction to the Photographs of Helen Levitt''	238	(6)
Film Clip: Storyboarding: Editing and Camera Work	244	(4)
Camera Work and Editing: Some Useful Terms	247	(1)
Fieldwork: Taking Inventory of Images	248	(1)
Mining the Archive: Advertising Through the Ages	249	(1)
Style	250	(46)
Dick Hebdige, ``Style in Revolt: Revolting Style''	252	(4)
Visual Essay: Graphic Design in Rock Culture	256	(3)
Theme Parties	259	(7)
Mark Lawson, ``The Very Nasty Party''	260	(1)
Shana Pearlman, ``Mistaken Identity: The Peril of Theme Parties''	261	(3)
Gregg Easterbrook, ``The Axle of Evil''	264	(2)
Visual Essay: American Car Culture	266	(2)
Wired Culture: iPods	268	(6)
Rob Walker, ``The Aura''	269	(2)
Andrew Sullivan, ``Society Is Dead: We Have Retreated into the iWorld''	271	(3)
Perspectives: Branding	274	(14)
Naomi Klein, ``No Logo''	274	(9)
The Economist, ``Who's Wearing the Trousers?''	283	(5)
Film Clip: Makeup and Costumes: Monsters and the Middle Ages	288
Visual Essay: Tibor Kalman, ``Sweet-Talking Spaghetti Sauce: How to Read a Label''	268	(24)
Classic Reading
Roland Barthes, ``The Face of Garbo''	292	(3)
Mining the Archive: Race and Branding	295	(1)
Public Space	296	(48)
Tina McElroy Ansa, ``The Center of the Universe''	298	(3)
John Fiske, ``Shopping for Pleasure: Malls, Power, and Resistance''	301	(5)
Murphy Davis, ``Woodruff Park and the Search for Common Ground''	306	(3)
Eva Sperling Cockcroft and Holly Barnet-Sanchez, ``Signs from the Heart: California Chicano Murals''	309	(6)
Wired Culture: Cell Phone Space	315	(4)
Annie Nakao, ``Cell Phone Etiquette: Shut up, Already!''	315	(4)
Perspectives: Public Roadsides, Private Grief: Roadside Memorials and Public Policy	319	(6)
L. Anne Newell, ``Roadside Crosses: Centuries-Old Tradition Can Stir Controversy''	320	(2)
Jeff Burlew, ``Memorials Cause Controversy''	322	(3)
Classic Reading
Jane Jacobs, ``The Uses of Sidewalks---Safety''	325	(8)
Visual Culture: The Troubled Landscape	333	(6)
Jason Berry and Richard Misrach, ``Cancer Alley: The Poisoning of the American South''	334	(5)
Film Clip: Analyzing Set Design: Cities in Decay	339	(1)
Fieldwork: Observing the Uses of Public Space	340	(1)
Mining the Archive: Take a Walking Tour	341	(3)
Storytelling	344	(53)
Patricia Hampl, ``Red Sky in the Morning''	346	(4)
Jan Harold Brunvand, ```The Hook' and Other Teenage Horrors''	350	(8)
Patricia A. Turner, ``I Heard It Through the Grapevine''	358	(6)
Michael Chabon, ``The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay''	364	(5)
Wired Culture: Video Games and Storytelling	369	(3)
Tom Loftus, ``Bringing Emotions to Video Games''	369	(3)
Perspectives: Film Reviews: The Case of Spider-Man 2	372	(6)
Todd Gilchrist, ``Spider-Man 2''	373	(2)
Roger Ebert, ``Spider-Man 2''	375	(3)
Classic Reading
Robert Warshow, ``The Gangster as Tragic Hero''	378	(4)
Visual Culture: The Graphic Novel: Reader Participation	382	(10)
Marjane Satrapi, ``The Veil''	382	(10)
Film Clip: Book to Film: The Adaptation	392	(1)
Fieldwork: Writing a Questionnaire	393	(2)
Mining the Archive: Comic Strips and Comic Books	395	(2)
Work	397	(49)
Sandra Cisneros, ``The First Job''	399	(1)
Martin Espada, ``Alabanza: In Praise of Local 400''	400	(3)
Scott Adams, ``The Dilbert Principle''	403	(3)
Barbara Ehrenreich, ``Nickel-and-Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America''	406	(7)
Wired Culture: Business in Bangalore	413	(5)
Thomas L. Friedman, ``The Great Indian Dream''	413	(2)
David Moberg, ``Hi-Tech Hijack: Corporations Ramp Up Offshoring of IT Service Jobs''	415	(3)
Perspectives: Sweatshop Economy	418	(6)
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, ``Two Cheers for Sweatshops''	418	(3)
Tom Hayden and Charles Kernaghan, ``Pennies an Hour and No Way Up''	421	(3)
Classic Reading
Tillie Olson, ``I Stand Here Ironing''	424	(5)
Visual Culture: Reading Documentary Photography	429	(7)
Charles Bowden, ``Camera of Dirt''	430	(6)
Film Clip: Film Documentary and the Narrator	436	(1)
Fieldwork: Reconstructing the Network of a Workplace	437	(7)
James P. Spradley and Brenda J. Mann, ``The Cocktail Waitress''	438	(6)
Mining the Archive: Lewis Hine and the Social Uses of Photography	444	(2)
History	446	(75)
Mary Gordon, ``More Than Just a Shrine: Paying Homage to the Ghosts of Ellis Island''	448	(4)
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, ``October 12, 1492''	452	(5)
Jane Tompkins, ```Indians': Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History''	457	(14)
Christopher Phillips, ``Necessary Fictions: Warren Neidich's Early American Cover-Ups''	471	(2)
Visual Essay: Warren Neidich, ``Contra Curtis: Early American Cover-Ups''	473	(3)
Loren Baritz, ``God's Country and American Know-How''	476	(6)
Niall Ferguson, ``The Empire Slinks Back''	482	(6)
Wired Culture: Virtual and Real	488	(5)
Marita Sturken, ``The Television Image: The Immediate and the Virtual''	488	(5)
Perspectives: George W. Bush's Second Inaugural Address	493	(9)
Second Inaugural Address, January 17, 2005	494	(3)
Peggy Noonan, ``Way Too Much God: Was the President's Speech a Case of `Mission Inebriation'?''	497	(2)
Tristram Hunt, ``Historians in Cahoots''	499	(3)
Classic Reading
Frederick Jackson Turner, ``The Significance of the Frontier in American History''	502	(4)
Visual Culture: Photographing History	506	(4)
Alan Trachtenberg, ``Reading American Photographs''	509	(1)
Visual Essay: The Iraq Invasion and Occupation	510	(4)
Film Clip: Film Genres: The Western	514	(1)
Fieldwork: Oral History	514	(4)
Studs Terkel, ``The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two''	515	(3)
Mining the Archive: Local Museums and Historical Societies	518	(3)
Living in a Postcolonial World	521	(64)
Classroom Scenes	522	(8)
Jamaica Kincaid, ``Columbus in Chains''	522	(5)
A. Suresh Canagarajah, ``An English Lesson in Sri Lanka''	527	(3)
Visual Essay: Samuel Fosso, Self-Portraits	530	(3)
Amitava Kumar, ``Passport Photos''	533	(10)
Gloria Anzaldua, ``How to Tame a Wild Tongue''	543	(8)
Laura Auricchio, ``Works in Translation: Ghada Amer's Hybrid Pleasures''	551	(6)
Wired Culture: Transnational Networks	557	(5)
World Social Forum, ``Call from Social Movements''	558	(4)
Perspectives: Bob Marley, Reggae, and Rastas	562	(13)
Anthony Bogues, ``Get Up, Stand Up: The Redemptive Poetics of Bob Marley''	563	(6)
Robert Palmer, ``One Love''	569	(6)
Classic Reading
W. E. B. Du Bois, ``The Souls of Our Striving''	575	(6)
Visual Culture: Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena: Postcolonial Representation	581	(2)
Film Clip: Film Genres: Bollywood	583	(1)
Mining the Archive: Nineteenth-Century Orientalist Painting	584	(1)
Credits	585	(4)
Index	589