具体描述
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.
作者简介
目录信息
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-Sánchez, “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”
Martín Espada, “Alabanza”
*Visual Essay: Working Class Heroes
*Dulce Pinzón, “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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