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Every day, everywhere : global perspectives on popular culture
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Boston : McGraw-Hill, 2002
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9780767411707
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Summary
Summary
With a thematic focus on global popular culture, this multi-genre reader offers students the opportunity to read, talk, and write about familiar topics of modern life.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Analyzing Everyday Life |
1 Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing |
Critical Thinking Critical |
Thinking about the World of Texts Critical |
Reading The Process of Reading Actively and Analytically How to Analyze an Argument Tools for Critical Reading Critical |
Writing Preliminary Questions about the Rhetorical Situation The Process of Writing Critically |
Working with Sources Analyzing Visual Texts Visuals Are Rhetorical Elements of Design Multimedia Texts and Hypertext |
2 Food for ThoughtBill Bryson |
What's Cooking: Eating in AmericaConrad P. Kottak |
Rituals at McDonald'sDiane Ackerman |
The Social SenseDinitia Smith |
Did a Barnyard Schism Lead to a Religious OneMargaret Visser |
Fingers Guanlong CaoChopsticks Octavio Paz |
Hygiene and RepressionGarrett Hongo |
Who Among You Knows the Essence of Garlic [Poem]Slavenka Drakulic |
Pizza in Warsaw |
Torte in PragueWilliam Maxwell |
The Pilgrimage [Short Story] |
3 Cross (Cultural) DressingFarid Chenoune |
Jeans and Black Leather: Gangs Don a Second SkinDodie Kazanjian |
The Kelly Bag as IconDeborah Tannen |
There Is No Unmarked Woman Germaine Greer |
One Man's Mutilation Is Another Man's BeautificationBernard Rudofsky |
The Unfashionable Human BodyValerie Steele and John S. Major |
China ChicAlison Lurie |
The Language of ClothesElizabeth W. Fernea and Robert A. Fernea |
A Look Behind the VeilLiza Dalby |
Kimono Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Clothes [Short Story] |
4 Gender (MIS)RepresentationBrian Pronger |
Sexual MythologiesRichard Majors and Janet Mancini Billson |
Cool PoseGareth Palmer |
Bruce Springsteen and Authentic Masculinity Anne Taylor Fleming Sperm in a Jar Susan Bordo |
Never Just PicturesMarge Piercy and Barbie Doll [Poem] and Waris Dirie |
The Tragedy of Female CircumcisionFatima Mernissi |
The French HaremMonique Proulx |
Feint of Heart [Short Story] |
5 Language MattersTemple Grandin |
Thinking in PicturesLuc Sante |
Lingua FrancaBarbara Mellix |
From Outside, In John Agard, Listenmr oxford don [Poem] and Anthony Burgess |
A Clockwork Orange [Chapter from novel]Luis Alberto Urrea |
Nobody's SonAmy Tan |
The Language of DiscretionKyoko Mori |
Polite LiesGary Chapman |
Flamers: Cranks, Fetishists, and Monomaniacs |
6 OthernessGina Kolata |
A Clone Is BornLennard J. Davis |
Visualizing the Disabled BodyLucy Grealy |
Autobiography of a FacePaul Monette |
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir Bruce Springsteen |
Streets of Philadelphia [Song Lyrics] Constance Classen |
The Odour of the OtherPaul Barber |
The Real Vampire GinoDel Guercio |
The Secrets of Haiti's Living DeadMilorad Pavic |
The Wedgwood Tea Set [Short Story] |
7 That's Entertainment!Greil Marcus |
Dead Elvis SandraTsing Loh |
The Return of DorisDay Neil Postman and Steve Powers |
TV News As EntertainmentCharles Oliver |
Freak ParadeJohn Cheever |
The Enormous Radio [Short Story]Jessica Hagedorn |
Asian Women in Film: No Joy |
No LuckR. K. Narayan |
Misguided 'Guide'Jackie Chan |
A Dirty JobJesse W. Nash |
Confucius and the VCR |
8 It's all in the GameCarl Sagan |
Game: The Prehistoric Origin of Sports JoyceCarol Oates |
On BoxingClifford Geertz |
The Balinese Cockfight RobertoGonzalez Echevarria |
First PitchMaya Angelou |
Champion of the World Arthur Ashe |
The Burden of RaceBonnie De Simone |
Mia Hamm: Grateful for Her GiftsJoan Ryan |
Little Girls in Pretty BoxesLin Sutherland |
A River Ran Over Me [Short Story] |
9 Worldly GoodsJuliet B. Schor |
The Culture of ConsumerismBill Bryson |
The Hard Sell: Advertising in AmericaRichard Keller Simon |
The Shopping Mall and the Formal GardenRabbi Susan Schnur |
Barbie Does Yom KippurUmberto Eco |
How Not to Use the Fax Machine and the Cellular PhoneGeorge Carlin |
A Place for Your StuffTerence McLaughlin |
Dirt: A Social History As Seen Through the Uses and Abuses of DirtEdward T. Hall |
Hidden Culture Raymonde Carroll, Sex, Money and SuccessDavid R. Counts |
Too Many BananasAlberto Moravia |
Jewellery [Short Story] Writing Across Themes: Essay Suggestions |