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Acclaimed for its compelling readings and provocative images, Reading Culture provides outstanding instruction on how to read and write critically about the culture that surrounds us.

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Author:   Diana George ,  John Trimbur
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Edition:   7th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 18.70cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.848kg
ISBN:  

9780205688074

ISBN 10:   0205688071
Pages:   592
Publication Date:   12 January 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Replaced By:   9780205211258
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

(* indicates readings and visuals that are new to this edition) Contents Visual Resources Alternate Contents Preface Chapter 1: Analyzing Literacy Events What Is Literacy? *Sylvia Scribner. Literacy in Three Metaphors. Literacy Campaign Posters Page to Screen: Print Culture and Digital Media *Gunther Kress. from Literacy in the New Media Age. Words, Images, and the Design of the Page * Chaos in the Crescent City. Literacy Narratives *Eudora Welty. from One Writer's Beginnings. *Malcolm X. from Autobiography of Malcolm X. Conor Boyland. Confessions of an Instant Messenger. Analyzing Literacy Events *Shirley Brice Heath. Talk is the thing. *Margaret J. Finders. Note-Passing: Struggles for Status. The Assignment: Writing an Analysis of a Literacy Event Sample Student Papers *Russell Kim. Petitioning the Powers. *Valery Sheridan. 'Please, order whatever you want. I insist': Ordering Meals at the Burning Spear Country Club as a Literacy Event. Chapter 2: Generations Arlie Russell Hochschild, Gen (Fill in the Blank): Coming of Age and Seeking an Identity Thomas Hine, Goths in Tomorrowland *Pew Research Report, A Portrait of `Generation Next': How Young People View their Lives, Future, and Politics *Wyatt Mason, My Satirical Self Making Connections: Where Generations Meet *E.B. White, Once More to the Lake Gloria Naylor, Kiswana Brown *Courtney E. Martin, The Problem with Youth Activism Margaret Mead, We Are All Third Generation VISUAL CULTURE-Representations of Youth Culture in Movies James Gilbert, Juvenile Delinquency Films FILM CLIP-Hollywood Stars: Brando, Dean, and Monroe FIELDWORK-Ethnographic Interviews Susan D. Craft, Daniel Cavicchi, and Charles Keil, My Music MINING THE ARCHIVE-Life Magazine Chapter 3: Schooling Theodore Sizer. What High School Is. *Jean Anyon. Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work. *Visual Essay: Analyzing College Viewbooks. Making Connections: Memories of Home and School. *Richard Rodriguez. The Achievement of Desire. Min-Zhan Lu. From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle. *Jane Jacobs. Credentialing vs. Educating. June Jordan. Nobody Mean More to Me Than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan. Visual Culture: Picturing Schooldays. Film Clip: Reading and Writing about Film: Reviews, Histories, Criticism. Fieldwork: Classroom Observations Cross-Curricular Underlife Mining the Archive: Textbooks from the Past Chapter 4: Images Stuart Ewen and Elizabeth Ewen, In the Shadow of the Image Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, When You Meet Estella Smart, You Been Met! Suggestions for Reading Advertising MAKING CONNECTIONS: Images of Gender *John Berger, Ways of Seeing *Richard Leppert, The Female Nude: Surfaces of Desire Visual Essay: Reading the Gaze: Gender Roles in Advertising *(new visuals) Visual Essay: Public Health Messages *Suggestions for Creating Print Ads from Adbusters *Philip Gefter, Icons: Fact, Fiction, or Metaphor? Visual Essay: Rewriting the Image *Film Clip: Camera Work: Optical Point-of-View Camera Work and Editing: Some Useful Terms Fieldwork: Taking Inventory Mining the Archive: Advertising Through the Ages Chapter 5: Style Dick Hebdige. Style in Revolt: Revolting Style. Visual Essay: Graphic Design in Rock Culture *Ariel Levy. Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. Making Connections: Theme Parties Mark Lawson. The Very Nasty Party. Shana Pearlman. Mistaken Identity: The Peril of Theme Parties. *Visual Essay: Street Fashion(Lolo Veleko) *Making Connections: Geek Culture *David Brooks. The Alpha Geeks. *Benjamin Nugent. Who's a Nerd, Anyway? *Adam Rogers. Geek Love. Rob Walker. Aura. *Visual Essay: Reading Labels, Selling Water. Film Clip: Makeup and Costumes: Monsters and the Middle Ages. Mining the Archive: Race and Branding. Chapter 6: Public Space Tina McElroy Ansa, The Center of the Universe *Barry Lopez, Caring for the Woods John Fiske, Shopping for Pleasure: Malls, Power, and Resistance *Mike Davis, Fortress Los Angeles Eva Sperling Cockroft and Holly Barnet-Sanchez, Signs from the Heart: California Chicano Murals *Visual Essay: Graffiti Politics-Claiming Interpretive Space Banksy, Wall and Piece MAKING CONNECTIONS: Public Roadsides, Private Grief L. Anne Newell, Roadside Crosses: Centuries-Old Tradition Can Stir Controversy Jeff Burlew, Memorials Cause Controversy Visual Culture: The Troubled Landscape Jason Berry and Richard Misrach, Cancer Alley: The Poisoning of the American South Film Clip: Analyzing Set Design: Cities in Decay Fieldwork: Observing the Uses of Public Space Mining the Archive: Take a Walking Tour Chapter 7: Storytelling Patricia Hampl, Red Sky in the Morning MAKING CONNECTIONS: Urban Legends Jan Harold Brunvand, 'The Hook' and Other Teenage Horrors Patricia A. Turner, I Heard It Through the Grapevine *Henry Jenkins, Why Heather Can Write *David Itzkoff, The Shootout Over Hidden Meanings in Video Games Robert Warshow, The Gangster as Tragic Hero MAKING CONNECTIONS: Film Reviews: The Case of Hancock *Manohla Dargis, Able to Leap Tall Buildings, Even if Hungover *David Denby, Desperate Men Visual Culture: The Graphic Novel: Reader Participation Marjane Satrapi, The Veil Film Clip: The Art of Adaptation Fieldwork: Writing a Questionnaire Mining the Archive: Comic Strips and Comic Books Chapter 8: Work Sandra Cisneros, The First Job Tillie Olson, I Stand Here Ironing *Stacy Schiff, Our Little Women Problem Martin Espada, Alabanza *Visual Essay: Working Class Heroes *Dulce Pinzon, The Real Story of the Superheroes MAKING CONNECTIONS: Offshoring the Great American Dream Thomas L. Friedman, The Great Indian Dream David Moberg, High Tech Hi-Jack *Steven Greenhouse, Worked and Overworked Visual Culture: Reading Documentary Photography Charles Bowden, Camera of Dirt Film Clip: Film Documentary and the Role of the Narrator Fieldwork: Restructuring the Network of a Workplace James P. Spradley and Brenda J. Mann, The Cocktail Waitress Mining the Archive: Lewis Hine and the Social Uses of Photography Chapter 9: History Mary Gordon. More Than Just a Shrine: Paying Homage to the Ghosts of Ellis Island. *Kristen Ann Hass. Making a Memory of War: Building the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Alan Trachtenberg. Reading American Photographs. *Visual Essay: American Photographs. Jane Tompkins. 'Indians': Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History. Christopher Phillips. Necessary Fictions: Warren Neidach's Early American Cover-Ups. Visual Essay: Warren Neidach, Contra Curtis: Early American Cover-Ups. *Making Connections: Two Speeches on Race and Racism in the United States. *Frederick Douglass. What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? *Barack Obama. A More Perfect Union. Visual Culture: Representations of War. Marita Sturken. The Television Image: The Immediate and the Virtual. Visual Essay: The Iraq War and Occupation. Film Clips: Film Genres: The Western. Fieldwork: Oral History Studs Terkel. The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two. Mining the Archive: Local Museum and Historical Societies. Chapter 10: Living in a Transnational World Amitava Kumar. Passport Photos. Making Connections: Colonized and Colonizer Jamaica Kincaid. Columbus in Chains. *George Orwell. Shooting an Elephant. Gloria Anzaldua. How to Tame a Wild Tongue. *Mary Louise Pratt. Arts of the Contact Zone Photos: Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West Samuel Fosso, Le chef qui a vendu l'Afrique aux colons. Laura Auricchio. Works in Translation: Ghada Amer's Hybrid Pleasures. *Inderpal Gerwal. Traveling Barbie. Visual Culture: Transnational Solidarity. Film Clips: Bollywood. Mining the Archive: 19th-Century Orientalism. Credits Index

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