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Reading and Writing about American Popular Culture |
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Why Study Popular Culture? |
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4 | (2) |
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6 | (1) |
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Strategies for Active Reading |
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7 | (1) |
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An Active Reading Casebook: Three Selections about Barbie |
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8 | (14) |
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9 | (1) |
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10 | (1) |
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10 | (1) |
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Reading Pop Cultural Criticism |
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12 | (1) |
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``The Indignation of Barbie'' |
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12 | (3) |
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Reading Academic Analyses |
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15 | (1) |
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```Seen Through Rose-Tinted Glasses': The Barbie Doll in American Society'' |
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15 | (7) |
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22 | (1) |
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22 | (4) |
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22 | (1) |
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23 | (1) |
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24 | (2) |
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26 | (5) |
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Thesis and Thesis Statement |
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26 | (1) |
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27 | (1) |
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28 | (1) |
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28 | (2) |
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30 | (1) |
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31 | (1) |
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32 | (1) |
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32 | (1) |
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33 | (3) |
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``Role-Model Barbie: Now and Forever?'' |
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33 | (3) |
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36 | (116) |
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Approaches to Advertising |
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40 | (66) |
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``In the Shadow of the Image'' |
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40 | (6) |
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46 | (14) |
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``Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals'' |
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60 | (18) |
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``Minority Presence and Portrayal in Mainstream Magazine Advertising: An Update'' |
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78 | (17) |
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``What's Wrong with Advertising?'' |
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95 | (11) |
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Images of Women and Men in Advertising |
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106 | (44) |
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106 | (9) |
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``A Gentleman and a Consumer'' |
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115 | (10) |
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125 | (8) |
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``Sex, Lies, and Advertising'' |
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133 | (17) |
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Additional Suggestions for Writing about Advertising |
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150 | (1) |
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151 | (1) |
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152 | (91) |
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The Cultural Influences of Television |
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154 | (31) |
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154 | (3) |
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``Television and Cultural Behavior'' |
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157 | (9) |
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166 | (8) |
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``Common Contemporary Themes'' |
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174 | (11) |
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185 | (26) |
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184 | (10) |
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``The Talk Show's Lost Potential'' |
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194 | (17) |
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211 | (29) |
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212 | (12) |
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``Soap Opera, Melodrama, and Women's Anger'' |
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224 | (16) |
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Additional Suggestions for Writing about Television |
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240 | (1) |
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241 | (2) |
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243 | (90) |
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Rock and Rap: Musical Controversies |
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245 | (53) |
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245 | (12) |
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257 | (13) |
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270 | (11) |
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``Hip-Hop Nation: There's More to Rap than Just Rhythms and Rhymes'' |
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281 | (13) |
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294 | (4) |
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Popular Music's Influence on Lifestyle |
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298 | (33) |
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``Popular Music: Emotional Use and Management'' |
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298 | (12) |
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``Punks in LA: It's Kiss or Kill'' |
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310 | (12) |
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``Crossing Pop Lines: Attention to Latinos Is Overdue, But Sometimes Off-Target'' |
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322 | (6) |
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328 | (3) |
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Additional Suggestions for Writing about Popular Music |
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331 | (1) |
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332 | (1) |
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333 | (75) |
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336 | (23) |
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336 | (6) |
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``Flamers: Cranks, Fetishists and Monomaniacs'' |
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342 | (6) |
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``Free Speech for the Net: A Panel of Federal Judges Overturns the Communications Decency Act'' |
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348 | (4) |
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``Cyberpunk---Subculture or Mainstream?'' |
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352 | (7) |
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359 | (46) |
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``Cyberhood vs. Neighborhood'' |
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359 | (7) |
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``Virtuality and Its Discontents'' |
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366 | (13) |
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``Black Struggles in Cyberspace: Cyber Segregation and Cyber-Nazis'' |
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379 | (15) |
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``We Are Geeks, and We Are Not Guys: The Systers Mailing List'' |
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394 | (7) |
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``On the Mailing List Systers'' |
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401 | (4) |
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Additional Suggestions for Writing about Cyberculture |
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405 | (1) |
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406 | (2) |
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408 | (72) |
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The Role of Sports in America |
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410 | (29) |
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``So Much of the Joy Is Gone'' |
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410 | (7) |
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``Sport and the American Dream'' |
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417 | (5) |
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``Jockpop: Popular Sports and Politics'' |
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422 | (10) |
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``Why Men Fear Women's Teams'' |
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432 | (7) |
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439 | (39) |
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``Seven Points on the Game of Football'' |
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439 | (11) |
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``Champion of the World'' |
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450 | (3) |
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``The Black and White Truth about Basketball'' |
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453 | (7) |
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``Alternative Masculinity and Its Effects on Gender Relations in the Subculture of Skateboarding'' |
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460 | (18) |
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Additional Suggestions for Writing about Sports |
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478 | (1) |
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479 | (1) |
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480 | (57) |
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Moviemaking and Criticism |
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482 | (34) |
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482 | (10) |
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``Do the Right Thing Production Notes'' |
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492 | (8) |
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500 | (4) |
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504 | (12) |
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516 | (19) |
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``Why We Crave Horror Movies'' |
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516 | (3) |
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``Monster Movies: A Sexual Theory'' |
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519 | (9) |
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Nightmare on Elm Street: A Review and a Cultural Analysis |
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528 | (1) |
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``Review of Nightmare on Elm Street 5'' |
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529 | (1) |
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``Freddy Krueger: Twisted Role Model?'' |
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530 | (5) |
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Additional Suggestions for Writing about Movies |
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535 | (1) |
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536 | (1) |
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537 | (86) |
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540 | (31) |
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540 | (3) |
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543 | (6) |
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``Exiting the Squirrel Cage'' |
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549 | (8) |
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``The Problem of Leisure'' |
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557 | (14) |
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571 | (46) |
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``Perils of the Princess: Gender and Genre in Video Games'' |
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571 | (15) |
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``Eight Ways of Looking at an Amusement Park'' |
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586 | (17) |
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603 | (5) |
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608 | (9) |
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Additional Suggestions for Writing about Leisure |
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617 | (2) |
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619 | (4) |
| For Further Reading: A Common Culture Bibliography |
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| Acknowledgments |
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633 | (5) |
| Index by Rhetorical Mode |
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638 | (1) |
| Index by Academic Discipline |
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639 | (2) |
| Index by Author and Title |
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