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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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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
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