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Common Culture: Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture, 4/E
Michael F. Petracca, University of California, Santa Barbara
Madeleine Sorapure, University of California, Santa Barbara

ISBN-10: 0131825453
ISBN-13: 9780131825451

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2004
Format: Paper; 656 pp


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For Freshman Composition courses.

From Barbie to the Internet, the Simpsons to the malls, this engaging text on pop culture helps students develop critical and analytical skills and write clear prose while reading, thinking, and writing about subjects they find inherently interesting. Spanning a full range of topics, this text provides key reading and writing strategies; it contains essays addressing a topic generally followed by an in-depth exploration of related material. In addition to the readings, each section begins with a catchy cultural artifact that leads students into a detailed introduction, discussion questions, essay topics, and suggestions for further reading and research.

  • NEW - Reading Images—Consists of questions; all new color inserts, and black and white images in every chapter.

    • Helps students make connections between the readings and the expanded images in the text.

  • NEW - Updated World Wide Web Site: www.prenhall.com/petracca—Features general links to information about popular culture, as well as links for each Internet Activity question.

    • Provides students with a convenient supplement to the text content and serves as a starting point for research in the field of popular culture.

  • NEW - All new material on Writing Research in Popular Culture—Includes MLA Documentation.

    • Prepares students to utilize research and properly reference their papers and essays.

  • Internet Activity Questions—Includes two or three questions in each chapter that engage students in writing activities directly related to the Internet and the World Wide Web.

    • Reinforces for students that the Web is an important resource for information, particularly with regard to popular culture; gives students hands-on practice in mining those resources.

  • Models for student writing—Demonstrate a range of rhetorical approaches (e.g., exposition, analysis, and argumentation) and offer varying levels of sophistication and difficulty in terms of content and style.

    • Offers students a wide range of models from which to choose.

  • Casebooks on certain pop-cultural phenomena—Including the Barbie Doll, rap and hip-hop music, horror movies, and virtual communities.

    • Gives students the opportunity to make in-depth studies of certain pervasive artifacts and practices they might otherwise take for granted. Provides students with the chance to participate in spirited classroom discussions regarding the social impact of these phenomena.

  • Reading Images—Consists of questions; all new color inserts, and black and white images in every chapter.

    • Helps students make connections between the readings and the expanded images in the text.

  • Updated World Wide Web Site: www.prenhall.com/petracca—Features general links to information about popular culture, as well as links for each Internet Activity question.

    • Provides students with a convenient supplement to the text content and serves as a starting point for research in the field of popular culture.

  • All new material on Writing Research in Popular Culture—Includes MLA Documentation.

    • Prepares students to utilize research and properly reference their papers and essays.



1. Reading and Writing about American Popular Culture.

What Is Popular Culture? Why Study Popular Culture? Active Reading. Strategies for Active Reading. An Active Reading Casebook: Three Selections about Barbie. Preparing to Read. Reading and Annotating.

Barbie's Shoes, Hilary Tham.

Rereading. Reviewing. Reading Pop Cultural Criticism.

The Indignation of Barbie, John Leo.

Reading Academic Analysis.

'Seen Through Rose-Tinted Glasses': The Barbie Doll in American Society, Marilyn Ferris Motz.

Reading Images. Preparing to Read. Reading and Annotating. Re-reading. Reviewing. The Writing Process. Prewriting. Freewriting. Clustering. Outlining. Drafting. Thesis and Thesis Statement. Opening Paragraphs. Supporting Paragraphs. Evidence. Conclusions. Distancing. Revising. Revision Checklist. Writing Research on Popular Culture. Modern Language Association Documentation Format. American Psychological Association Documentation Format. Sample Student Essay.

Role-Model Barbie: Now and Forever? Carolyn Muhlstein.

2. Advertising.
Approaches to Advertising.

The Cult You're In, Kalle Lasn. Salespeak, Roy Fox. Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals, Jib Fowles. How Advertising Informs to Our Benefit, John E. Calfee. Virtual Product Placement, Damian Ward Hey.

Images of Women and Men in Advertising.

You're Soaking In It, Jennifer L. Pozner. Getting Dirty, Mark Crispin Miller. Sex, Lies, and Advertising, Gloria Steinem.

Additional Suggestions for Writing about Advertising.

3. Television.
The Cultural Influences of Television.

Spudding Out, Barbara Ehrenreich. Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor, Robert Kubey & Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Life According to TV, Harry Waters. Interactive Television: Is It Coming or Not? John Kelly.

Interpreting Television.

Reality TV.

The Tribe Has Spoken, Rebecca Gardyn. Keeping It Real, Robert Samuels.

The Simpsons.

The Simpsons: Atomistic Politics and the Nuclear Family, Paul A. Cantor. The Evolution of the Seven Deadly Sins: From God to the Simpsons, Lisa Frank.

Additional Suggestions for Writing about Television.

4. Popular Music.
Stars and Fans: Constructions of Culture and Counter-Culture.

I'm Just a Louisiana Girl: The Southern World of Britney Spears, Gavin James Campbell. Napster: Catalyst for a New Industry or Just Another Dot.com? Michael Slinger and Amy Hillman. Marilyn Manson and the Apt Pupils of Littleton, Gary Burns. Deadheads Yesterday and Today: An Audience Study, Melissa McCray Pattacini.

Rap and Hip-Hop: A Casebook.

Hip-Hop Nation: There's More to Rap Than Just Rhythms and Rhymes, Melissa August, Leslie Everton Brice, Laird Harrison, Todd Murphy, & David E. Thigpen. The Miseducation of Hip-Hop, Evelyn Jamilah. Age Ain't Nothing But a Number, Polly E. McLean.

Additional Suggestions for Writing about Popular Music.

5. Cyberculture.
Virtual Selves and Communities.

The Self in the Age of Information, Kenneth Gergen. Cyberhood vs. Neighborhood, John Perry Barlow. Virtuality and Its Discontents, Sherry Turkle. Black Struggles in Cyberspace: Cyber-Segregation and Cyber-Nazis, Colin Beckles.

Cybereducation.

The Learning Revolution, Claudia Wallis. Virtual Students, Digital Classroom, Neil Postman. Undergraduate Teaching in the Electronic Age, Richard A. Lanham.

Additional Suggestions for Writing about Cyberculture.

6. Sports.
The Role of Sports in America.

The Sports Market Is Looking Soggy, John D. Solomon. The Next Generation in Sport: Y, Choonghoon Lim & Douglas Michele Turco. Why Men Fear Women's Teams, Kate Rounds.

Analyzing Sports.

The Sociology of Sport, T.R. Young. Geographical Relocation, Suicide, and Homicide, Robert M. Fernquist.Champion of the World, Maya Angelou. Tiger Time: The Wonder of an American Hero, Jay Nordlinger. Life on the Edge, William Dowell and the Editors of TimeMagazine. Risk, Paul Roberts.

Additional Suggestions for Writing about Sports.

7. Movies.
Moviemaking Film Criticism.

The Way We Are, Sydney Pollack. Film Criticism, Mark J. Schaefermeyer. Film Criticism in America Today: A Critical Symposium, The Editors of Cineaste.

The Horror Movie.

Why We Crave Horror Movies, Stephen King. Monster Movies: A Sexual Theory, Walter Evans. <IU>The Blair Witch Project Project, J.P. Telotte. The 'Witchcraft' of Media Manipulation: <IU>Pamela and <IU>The Blair Witch Project, Martin Harris.

Additional Suggestions for Writing about Movies.

For Further Reading: A Popular Culture Bibliography.Index by Rhetorical Mode.Index by Academic Discipline.Index by Author and Title.

    For Freshman Composition courses and Popular Culture courses.

    From Barbie to the Internet, the Simpsons to the malls, this engaging text on pop culture helps students develop critical and analytical skills and write clear prose while reading, thinking, and writing about subjects they find interesting. Spanning a full range of topics, this text provides key reading and writing strategies; it contains essays addressing a topic generally followed by an in-depth exploration of related material. In addition to the readings, each section begins with a catchy cultural artifact that leads students into a detailed introduction, discussion questions, essay topics, and suggestions for further reading and research.

  • 0132202670Common Culture: Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture, 5/E
    Petracca & Sorapure
    © 2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 656 pages | Out of Stock
    ISBN-10: 0132202670 | ISBN-13: 9780132202671
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Common Culture, Fourth Edition, is a diverse, pop culture reader with varied cultural topics such as television, movies, sports, and computers. The text encourages you to read, think, and write about pop culture in order to help you develop critical and analytical thinking skills. Additionally, Common Culture hopes to engage you with the profound effect of popular culture on everyday life.

The Fourth Edition features:
  • Updated readings on advertising, popular music, television, cyberculture, sports, and movies
  • Discussions on hot topics in popular culture, including virtual reality television, sports and violence, and the cyber community
  • Focus on Reading Images—questions in every chapter help you make connections between the new color visuals and the articles
  • All new material on Writing Research in Popular Culture, including updated MLA documentation

The new Common Culture, Fourth Edition, Companion Website™ expands on the text by mirroring each of its chapters and provides an interactive environment with additional exercises and links to related Websites. Visit www.prenhall.com/petracca to view the list of new features.

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"Readings in Common Culture are very solid, very interesting, and extremely timely and current."
Leah Holmes, University of Southern Mississippi

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