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World Is a Text, The: Writing, Reading, and Thinking About Culture
Jonathan Silverman, Virginia Commonwealth University
Dean Rader, University of San Francisco

ISBN-10: 0130949841
ISBN-13: 9780130949844

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Copyright: 2003
Format: Paper; 792 pp
Published: 12/02/2002
Status: Out of Print

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For courses in Freshman Composition, Sophomore or advanced component, and writing intensive cultural study courses.

This cultural studies reader is devoted to teaching students how to “read” all kinds of texts. Its comprehensive and inclusive approach focuses on the relationship between reading traditional works—such as short stories, and poems—and other less-traditional ones—such as movies, the Internet, race, ethnicity, and television. More importantly, the book teaches students the usefulness of learning to actively read their surroundings. Achieving This will help readers become successful as students in academic settings, as well as participants in their world.

A focus on instruction in both reading and writing throughout—Looks at the acts of reading and writing as they apply to a particular medium.
- Guides students directly with worksheets, strategies, and possible topics for writing and discussion.

A link to experiences outside the classroom—Lends itself to a more natural relationship between time inside and outside the classroom.
- Promotes active reading of texts inside the classroom, as well as trips outside the classroom, to engage particular mediums.

An emphasis on accessible and critical works—Features a variety of reading levels that range from student written to theoretical works, with a large portion from magazines and newspapers.
- Gives instructors more flexibility in choosing material and allows for a wider range of appeal. Enables students to understand the variety and depth of writing about popular culture so that their interest in culture is sustained after college.

An interdisciplinary perspective—Features chapters with a variety of approaches to a particular medium: historical, cultural, and relating different types of texts to one another.
- Helps students understand the way multiple disciplines can enhance their understanding of the world.

A flexible format—Means the chapters on race and gender can be used for argumentative papers; the chapters on film and literature for analytical essays; and students can research themes evoked by the suites for research papers.
- Allows instructors the freedom to tailor their courses and assignments to various kinds of texts.

Introduction.

Semiotics: The Study of Signs (and Texts). Systems of Reading: Making Sense of Cultural Texts. The “Semiotic Situation” (or the “Moving Text”). Texts, the World, You, and Your Papers. Learning to Read the World as a Text: Three Case Studies. Reading This Text as a Text. So, the World Is a Text, What Can You Do with It?

The World Is a Text: Writing.

How Do I Write a Text for College? Making the Transition from High School Writing, by Patty Strong. How Do I Make an Argument about a Building? Strategies for Constructing a Thesis and Building a Good Paper. How Do I Write about Movies? A Tour through the Writing Process. How Am I a Text? On Writing Personal Essays. How Do I Know What a Good Paper Looks Like? An Annotated Student Essay. How Do I Get Info on Songs? Researching Popular Culture Texts.

The World Is a Text: Reading.

1. Reading Literature.

Jean Toomer, “Blood-Burning Moon.” James Tate, “Goodtime Jesus.” Pablo Neruda, “Ode to My Socks.” Carolyn Forché, “The Colonel.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown.” William Shakespeare, “My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun (Sonnet 130).” Emily Dickinson, “My Life Had Stood—a Loaded Gun.” Wislawa Szymborska, “Slapstick.” Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour”.

The Literature Suite—Social and Economic Class

Langston Hughes, “Harlem.” Susan Steinberg, “Isla. ” Chris Haven, “Assisted Living.” Adrian Louis, “Dust World.” Theodore Roethke, “My Papa's Waltz.”

2. Reading Television.

Sallie Tisdale, “Citizens of the World, Turn on Your Televisions!” Ariel Gore, “TV Can Be a Good Parent.” Harry F.Waters, “Life According to TV.” Michelle Cottle, “How Soaps Are Integrating America: Color TV.” Katherine Gantz, “'Not That There's Anything Wrong with That': Reading the Queer in Seinfeld.”

Student Essay: Archana Mehta, “Society's Need for a Queer Solution: The Media's Reinforcement of Homophobia through Traditional Gender Roles.”

The Simpsons Suite.

Les Sillars, “The Last Christian TV Family in America.” Jaime J. Weinman, “Worst Episode Ever.” Anne Waldron Neumann, “The Simpsons.” Peter Parisi, “'Black Bart' Simpson: Appropriation and Revitalization in Commodity Culture.”

Student Essay: Hillary West, “Media Journal: The Rosie O'Donnell Show.”

3. Reading Public Space.

Daphne Spain, “Spatial Segregation and Gender Stratification in the Workplace.” Kenneth Meeks, “Shopping in a Group While Black: A Coach's Story.” Robert Bednar, “Caught Looking: Problems with Taking Pictures of People Taking Pictures at an Exhibition.” Katherine F. Benzel, “Room for Learning with Latest Technology.”

Public Space—The Suburban Suite.

William L. Hamilton, “How Suburban Design is Failing Teen-Agers.” William Booth, “A White Migration North from Miami.” Sarah Boxer, “A Remedy for the Rootlessness of Modern Suburban Life?” Whitney Gould, “New Urbanism Needs to Keep Racial Issues in Mind.”

4. Reading Race and Ethnicity.

Tamar Lewin, “Growing Up, Growing Apart.” Kwame J. McKenzie and N. S. Crowcroft, “Describing Race, Ethnicity, and Culture in Medical Research: Describing the Groups Studied Is Better Than Trying to Find a Catchall Name” Michael Omi, “In Living Color: Race and American Culture”. Handsome Lake, “How America Was Discovered” Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue.” Jim Mahfood, “True Tales of Amerikkkan History Part II: The True Thanksgiving”. Beverly Daniel Tatum, “Why Are All Blacks Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” Malcolm Gladwell, “The Sports Taboo.”

Race and Ethnicity—The Multiracial Suite.

Jeffry Scott, “Race, Labels and Identity; Millions Live in an America Bent on—and at Odds about—Categorizing Them.“ Leonard Pitts, Jr., “Is There Room in This Sweet Land of Liberty for Such a Thing as a 'Cablinasian'? Face It, Tiger: If They Say You're Black, Then You're Black.” George F. Will, “Melding in America.” Ellis Cose, “Census and the Complex Issue of Race.” Teja Arboleda, “Race Is a Four-Letter Word.”

5. Reading Movies.

David Denby, “High-School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies” Michael Parenti, “Class and Virtue.” bell hooks, “Mock Feminism: Waiting to Exhale.” Freya Johnson, “Holy Homosexuality Batman!: Camp and Corporate Capitalism in Batman Forever.” Four Reviews of Moulin Rouge: Roger Ebert, Stanley Kaufmann, Elvis Mitchell, Owen Glieberman.

The Movie Violence Suite.

Linda Williams, “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess.” Violence, Film, and Native America: Louise Erdrich, “Dear John Wayne.” and Sherman Alexie, “Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” Andrea Sachs and Susanne Washburn, “Time Forum: Tough Talk on Entertainment.”

Interchapter: Reading Images.

America, Cowboys, The West, and Race. The Images of Gender. The Semiotics of Architecture. Laundry. Two Flags.

6. Reading Gender.

Deborah Tannen, “Marked Women, Unmarked Men.” Holly Devor, “Gender Role Behaviors and Attitudes.” Paul Theroux, “Being a Man.” Alfonsina Storni, “You Would Have Me White.”

Student Essay: Whitney Black, “The Woman Warrior: The Problem of Using Culture to Liberate Identity.”

The Myths of Gender Suite.

Jill Birnie Henke, Diane Zimmerman Umble, and Nancy J. Smith, “Construction of the Female Self: Feminist Readings of the Disney Heroine.” Jane Yolen, “America's Cinderella.” Maxine Hong Kingston, “No Name Woman.”

7. Reading the Visual Arts.

Alan Pratt, “Andy Warhol: The Most Controversial Artist of the Century?” Susan Sontag, “America Seen through a Lens Darkly.”, “Which Art Will Top the Chartes?: Four Curators Share Their Top 10 Picks and Reasoning behind the Most Influential Visual Artworks of the Past 1,000 Years.” E. G. Chrichton, “Is the NAMES Quilt Art?” Dean Rader, “(Re)Versing Vision: Reading Sculpture in Poetry and Prose.” Scott McCloud, “Sequential Art: 'Closure' and 'Art'.”

Student Essay: Anne Darby, “#27: Reading Cindy Sherman and Gender.”

The Sensation Suite.

Dana Mack, “It Isn't Pretty…But Is It Art?” Peter Schjeldahl, “Those Nasty Brits: How Sensational Is 'Sensation?'” William F. Buckley Jr., “Giuliani's Own Exhibit.” Benjamin Ivry, “'Modern Art Is a Load of Bullshit': Why Can't the Art World Accept Social Satire from a Black Artist?”

8. Reading Advertising and the Media.

Advertising.

Dave Barry, “Some Hated Commercials Inspire Violent Fantasies.” Malcolm Gladwell, “The Coolhunt.” Clint C. Wilson and Felix Gutierrez, “Advertising and People of Color.” Rob Walker, “Diet Coke's Underwear Strategy.”

Student Essay: Brittany Gray, “Hanes Her Way.”

News/Media.

Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon, “15 Questions about the 'Liberal Media'.” Kevin Williams and David Miller, “AIDS News and News Cultures.” David McGowan, “The America the Media Don't Want You to See.”

The Media Manipulation Suite.

Stuart and Elizabeth Ewen, “In the Shadow of the Image” William Lutz, “Weasel Words.” Trudy Lieberman, “Slanting the Story.”

9. Reading Music.

Kevin J.H. Dettmar and William Richey, “Musical Cheese: The Appropriation of Seventies Music in Nineties Movies.”

Student Essay: Fouzia Baber, “Is Tupac Really Dead?”

Student Essay: Sarah Hawkins, “Right on Target: Revisiting Elvis Costello's My Aim Is True”

Reading Music—The Song Suite.

Dave Marsh, “Johnny B. Goode.” Ian MacDonald, “I Am the Walrus.” Robert Shelton, “Like a Rolling Stone.” Michael Azerrad, “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” Matt Compton, “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” Christopher Sieving, “Cop Out? The Media, 'Cop Killer,' and the Deracialization of Black Rage (Constructing [Mis]Representations)”

10. Reading Technology.

Donald A. Norman, “Infuriating by Design: Everyday Things Need Not Wreak Havoc on Our Lives.” Elizabeth Weil, “The Girl-Game Jinx.” Lisa Nakamura, “Where Do You Want to Go Today? Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet, and Transnationality”

Student Essay: Virginia Colwell, “Mail-Order Brides: The Content of Internet Courtship.”

The Internet and Identity Suite.

Frederick C. McKissack Jr., “Cyberghetto: Blacks are Falling Through the Net.” Glen Martin, “Internet Indian Wars: Native Americans Are Fighting to Connect the 550 Nations—In Cyberspace.” Brenda Danet, “Text as Mask: Gender and Identity on the Internet.” Andrew Sullivan, “The InnerNet.”

Appendix: How Do I Cite This Car?: Guidelines for Citing Popular Culture Texts.

Using Parenthetical References. Building the Works Cited Page. Plagiarism. Works Cited Examples.

Index.

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