American Popular Culture and Its Critics 4219-SD129z
1. INTRODUCTORY MEETING: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE ACADEMY
R. B. Browne, P. Browne, "The Generalities of Culture" in Browne, pp. 3-12
R. Trussel, "Scholars Spend as Much Time with Love Boat as with Shakespeare" in Tomasino, pp. 164-169
A. Ross, "Rock 101: Academia Tunes In" in Tomasino, pp. 169-181
J. Franzen, "The Reader in Exile", in: Tomasino, pp.181-191
2. NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THE INTERNET
R. Samuels, "Breaking Down Borders: How Technology Transforms the Private and Public Realms" in: Petracca, Sorapure, 2007, pp. 339-342
J. P. Barlow, "Cyberhood vs. Neighborhood" in Petracca, Sorapure, 2007, pp. 343-350
Ch. Rosen, "Our Cell Phones, Ourselves" in Petracca, Sorapure, 2007, pp. 351-398
R. Blood, "Weblogs: A History and Perspective" in Petracca, Sorapure, 2007, pp. 399-406
J. Hiler, "Borg Journalism" in Petracca, Sorapure, 2007, pp. 407-415
S. Johnson, "The Internet ? Everything Bad Is Good for You" in Tomasino, pp. 203-208
3. MEDIA CONVERGENCE AND FAN CULTURE
H. Jenkins, Convergence Culture, Ch. 4 "Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars?", pp. 131-168 + 269-271 and Ch. 2 "Buying into American Idol: How We Are Being Sold on Reality TV", pp. 59-92 + 263-266
4. MOVIEMAKING AND CRITICISM. ANALYZING MOVIES
S. Pollack, "The Way We Are" in Petracca, Sorapure, 2007, pp. 523-533
S. Austerlitz, "The Politics of Moviemaking" in Petracca, Sorapure, 2007, pp. 533-543
M. J. Schaefermeyer, "Film Criticism" in Petracca, Sorapure, 1995, pp. 521-531
J. Rothe-Kushel, "Fight Club: A Ritual Cure for the Spiritual Ailment of American Masculinity" in Petracca, Sorapure, 2007, pp. 565-589
A. A. Stone, "Pulp Fiction", in Petracca, Sorapure, 2007, pp. 590-598
T. de Zengotita, "She'll Kill Bill While You Chill" in Petracca, Sorapure, 2007, pp. 598-605
W. Irvin, "Gibson's Sublime Passion: In Defense of the Violence" in Petracca, Sorapure, 2007, pp. 612-621
5. POPULAR CULTURE AND RACE/ETHNICITY
L. E. Wynter, American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business and the End of White America, Ch. 5 "Transracial America Sells", pp. 131-177 + 286-287
Minh-Ha Pham, "The Asian Invasion (of Multiculturalism) in Hollywood" in Petracca, Sorapure, 2007, pp.543-563
B. Beck "The Myth That Would Not Die: The Sopranos, Mafia Movies, and Italians in America" in Tomasino, pp. 122-129
M. Navarro, "Trying to Get Beyond the Role of the Maid: Hispanic Actors Are Seen as Underrepresented, with the Exception of One Part" in Tomasino, pp. 130-134
Ch. Tucker, "Different Stories" in Tomasino, pp. 135-142
6. CONSUMER CULTURE AND ITS DISCONTENTS
J. Twitchell, "Trash and the Voluntary Simplicity Movement ? The Triumph of American Materialism" in Tomasino, pp. 213-224
E. Michael Mazur, T. K. Koda, "The Happiest Place on Earth: Disney" in Tomasino, pp. 225-230
J. J. Farrell, "Shopping for American Culture" in Tomasino, pp. 231-238
P. Rojas, "Bootleg Culture" in Tomasino, pp. 238-245
S. Tsing Loh, "Shopworn: Like the Valley Girls Who Made It Famous, the Suburban Mall Is Now on the Wrong Side of Forty", in Tomasino, pp. 111-117
J. Heath, A. Potter, The Nation of Rebels, Ch. 4 "I Hate Myself and I Want to Buy", pp. 98-134 + 340-341 and Ch. 7 "From Status-Seeking to Coolhunting", pp. 188-220 + 342-343
7. COMMODIFICATION OF DISSENT
Heath, Potter, Ch. 1 "The Birth of Counterculture", pp. 15-35 and Ch. 2 "Freud Goes to California", pp.36-64 + pp. 337-339
T. Frank, "Why Johnny Can't Dissent", in Frank, Weiland, Commodify Your Dissent, pp. 31-41
T. Frank, "Alternative to What?", in: Frank, Weiland, pp. 145-163
8. POPULAR CHRISTIAN CRITIQUE AND CONSERVATIVE CRITIQUE
Ch. Colson, Lies that Go Unchallenged in Popular Culture, "The Media", pp. 289-331
R. Kimball, The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America, "Introduction: What is a Cultural Revolution?", pp. 3-35 + 285-288 and Ch. 11 "What the Sixties Wrought", pp. 247-282 + 311-313
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Bibliography
Browne, Ray B,. Profiles of Popular Culture (University of Wisconsin Press: Madison, WI, 2005)
Colson, Charles, Lies that Go Unchallenged in Popular Culture, (Tyndale House Publishers: Wheaton, IL, 2005)
Easterbrook, Gregg, The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse, (Random House, New York 2003)
Frank, Thomas and Matt Weiland, Commodify Your Dissent: the Business of Culture in the New Gilded Age (W.W. Norton: New York, 1997)
Heath, Joseph and Andrew Potter, The Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture (HarperCollins: New York, 2004)
Jenkins, Henry, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (New York University Press: New York and London, 2006)
Kimball, Roger, The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America (Encounter Books: San Francisco, 2000)
Petracca, Michael F., Madeleine Sorapure (eds), Common Culture: Reading and Writing about American Popular Culture (Prentice Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1995)
Petracca, Michael F., Madeleine Sorapure (eds), Common Culture: Reading and Writing about American Popular Culture (Pearson: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2007)
Tomasino, Anna (ed.), Discovering Popular Culture (Pearson: New York, 2007)
Wynter, Leon E., American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business and the End of White America (Random House: New York, 2002)
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