Description: * Indicates selections new to this edition. I. MEDIA JOURNAL ASSIGNMENTS. A Day in the Life.Keeping in Touch.Escaping.Identifying with Music.Connecting with Celebrities.Reading Places.Interpreting Technologies.Forming a Style.Seeing Gender.Discovering Politics.Feeling Hyped.Watching TV Watching. II. READINGS. I Saw God and/or Tangerine Dream, Lester Bangs. Imaginary Social Relationships, John Caughey.* Is Anything for Real? Travis Charbeneau. Ideal Homes , Rosalind Coward.* Visions of Black-White Friendship, Benjamin DeMott. Blue Jeans, Umberto Eco. Playboy Joins the Battle of the Sexes, Barbara Ehrenreich. Wrestling with Myself, George Felton.* Confessions of a TV Talk Show Shrink, Stuart Fischoff.* Movies and History, Eric Foner and John Sayles.* Grieving for the Camera, Neal Gabler.* Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.* Pop Goes the Culture, William Grimes.* The Conformity of Office Zaniness, Daniel Harris. The Importance of Being Oprah, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison.* Happy [ ] Day to You, Gerri Hirshey.* The Internet Is Four Inches Tall, M. Kadi. The Malling of America: An Inside Look at the Great Consumer Paradise, William Severini Kowinski. About a Salary or Reality? Rap's Recurrent Conflict, Alan Light. Understanding Television, David Marc. Fortunate Son, Dave Marsh.* Life in the Stone Age, Louis Menand. The 19-Inch Neighborhood, Joshua Meyrowitz. Barbara Walter's Theater of Revenge, Mark Crispin Miller. Serious Watching, Alexander Nehamas.* The Home Magazine Kitchen, Donald Norman. The Peek-a-Boo World, Neil Postman. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature, Janice A. Radway.* Trend-Spotting: It's All the Rage, Edward Rothstein.* Why Is the Force Still with Us? John Seabrook.* Tales from the Cutting Room Floor, Debra Seagal.* Street Corners in Cyberspace, Andrew L. Shapiro. Sex, Lies and Advertising, Gloria Steinem. The Machine in the Kitchen, John Thorne. A Weight That Women Carry, Sallie Tisdale.* This Is a Naked Lady, Gerard Van Der Leun.* Denim Downsize, Jay Weiser. Michael Jordan Leaps the Great Divide, John Edgar Wideman. Urban Spaceman, Judith Williamson. III. PROJECTS IN CRITICISM. A Media Autobiography.The Meanings of News.Critics, Fans, and Writing.The Process of Viewing a Movie.Naming and Interpreting a Genre.The Media Generation(s).Toward a Theory of Watching TV.

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