Instructor: Mark L. Singleton

Mentor: Chris Ross

UnSt 254C: Popular Culture Sophomore Inquiry

Spring 2004

  1. Schaefermeyer, Mark J. "Film Criticism." Common Culture: Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture. Eds. Michael F. Petracca and Madelaine Sorapure. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1995.
  2. Scholes, Robert, Nancy R. Comley, and Gregory L. Ulmer. "Intertextuality." Text Book: An Introduction to Literary Language. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.
  3. Arnold, David L.G. "'And the Rest Writes Itself': Roland Barthes Watches The Simpsons." The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! Of Homer. Eds. William Irwin, Mark T. Conrad, and Aeon J. Skoble. Chicago: Open Court, 2001.
  4. Conrad, Mark T. "Thus Spake Bart: On Nietzsche and the Virtues of Being Bad." The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! Of Homer. Eds. William Irwin, Mark T. Conrad, and Aeon J. Skoble. Chicago: Open Court, 2001.
  5. Jenkins, Henry. "Television Fans." Reading Culture: Contexts for Critical Reading and Writing. 3rd Edition. Diana George and John Trimbur, eds. Menlo Park: Longman, 1999.
  6. Postman, Neil. "TV's 'Disastrous' Impact on Children." Mass Media and the Popular Arts. McGraw-Hill Publishing Company.
  7. Rapping, Elayne. "Commercials: Television's Ultimate Art Form." The Looking Glass World of Nonfiction TV. Boston: South End Press, 1987.
  8. Stallybrass, Peter, and Allon White. "From Carnival to Transgression." The Subcultures Reader. Eds. Ken Gelder and Sarah Thonton. New York: Routledge, 1997.
  9. Maasik, Sonia and Jack Solomon, eds. "The Semiotic Method." Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers. Boston: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
  10. Barthes, Roland. "The Poor and the Proletariat." Mythologies. Annette Lavers, trans. New York: Hill and Wang, 1957; trans. 1972.
  11. Jameson, Fredric. "The Waning of Affect." to "The Collage of Radical Difference." The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. In Media and Cultural Studies: Key Works. Eds. Meenaksi Gigi Durham and Douglas M. Kellner. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
  12. Foucault, Michel. "The Order of Things." Literary Theory: An Anthology. Eds. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. New York: Blackwell Publishers, 1998.
  13. Horkheimer, Max and Theodore W. Adorno. "The Culture Industry." Media and Cultural Studies: Key Works. Eds. Meenaksi Gigi Durham and Douglas M. Kellner. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
  14. Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Visual Culture: The Reader. Eds. Jessica Evans and Stuart Hall. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1999.
  15. Coyle, Michael and Jon Dylan. "Modeling Authenticity, Authenticating Commercial Models." Reading Rock and Roll: Authenticity, Appropriation, Aesthetics. Eds. Kevin J.H. Dettman and William Richey. New York: Columbia University Press. 1999.
  16. Gramsci, Antonio. "Hegemony" (from "The Formation of the Intellectuals.") Literary Theory: An Anthology. Ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers, 1998.
  17. Baudrillard, Jean. "The Precession of Simulacra" and "Simulacra and Science Fiction." Simulacra and Simulation. Sheila Faria Glaser, trans. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1994; rpt. 1999.
  18. Foster, Alan Dean. "Revenge of the Nerds, Part X." Exploring the Matrix: Visions of the Cyber Present. Ed. Karen Haber. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003.
  19. Watson, Ian. "The Matrix as Simulacrum." Exploring the Matrix: Visions of the Cyber Present. Ed. Karen Haber. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003.
  20. Gordon, Andrew. "The Matrix: Paradigm of Postmodernism or Intellectual Poseur, Part II." Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and Religion in The Matrix. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: Benbella Books, 2003.
  21. Bright, Susie. "Soaking Feminism." The Sexual State of the Union. New York: Touchstone, 1997.
  22. "Should Pornography Be Studied in Universities?" Last visited 9/24/02.
  23. Bright, Susie. "The Price of titillation." Full Exposure. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2000.
  24. Johnson, Merri Lisa. "Fuck You & Your Untouchable Face: Third Wave Feminism and the Problem of Romance." Jane Sexes it Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire. Ed. Merri Lisa Johnson. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002.
  25. Easton, Dossie, and Catherine A. Liszt. "Paradigms, Old and New." The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities. San Francisco: Greenery Press, 1998.
  26. Gladwell, Malcolm. "True Colors: Hair Dye and the Hidden History of Postwar America." The New Yorker. 3/22/99.
  27. Wilson, Cintra. "Only the Cute Survive." A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined as a Grotesque, Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations. New York: Penguin Books, 2001.
  28. Dillon, Kate. "Sizing Myself Up: Tales of a Plus-Size Model." Body Outlaws: Young Women Write About Body Image and Identity. Ed. Ophira Edut. New York: Seal Press, 2000.
  29. Corinna, Heather. "Dangerous Curves." Last visited 3/21/03.
  30. Goodman, Ellen. "Oh, Horror! Women go to College!" The Oregonian. 05 Sept. 2002.
  31. "The Good Wife' Guide." Housekeeping Monthly. 13 May 1955. (found at: Last visited 3/27/03.) [See resources on class web site for comments on this.]
  32. Miller, Jessica Prata. "'The I in Team': Buffy and Feminist Ethics." Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Ed. James B. South. Chicago: Open Court, 2003.
  33. Dery, Mark. "The Empire of Signs." Culture Jamming. New Jersey: Open Magazine Pamphlet Series #25, 1993.
  34. Thee Temple of Psychick Youth. "Television Magick." Mind Invaders: A Reader in Psychic Warfare, Cultural Sabotage, and Semiotic Terrorism. Ed. Stewart Home. London: Serpent's Tail, 1997.
  35. Blisset, Luther. "Ten-Point Guide to Being a Cult Artist." Mind Invaders: A Reader in Psychic Warfare, Cultural Sabotage, and Semiotic Terrorism. Ed. Stewart Home. London: Serpent's Tail, 1997.
  36. Blisset, Luther. "None Dare Call it Nihilism." Mind Invaders: A Reader in Psychic Warfare, Cultural Sabotage, and Semiotic Terrorism. Ed. Stewart Home. London: Serpent's Tail, 1997.
  37. Campaign to Abolish the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. "Ban MacBeth." Mind Invaders: A Reader in Psychic Warfare, Cultural Sabotage, and Semiotic Terrorism. Ed. Stewart Home. London: Serpent's Tail, 1997.
  38. Outer Spaceways Incorporated. "Nonsology Workshop." Mind Invaders: A Reader in Psychic Warfare, Cultural Sabotage, and Semiotic Terrorism. Ed. Stewart Home. London: Serpent's Tail, 1997.
  39. Wolfe, Tom. "Hooking Up: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American's World." Hooking Up. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000.
  40. Schor, Juliet. "Exiting the Squirrel Cage." The Overworked American. As reprinted in Common Culture 541-547. HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
  41. Todd, Richard. "high on spending. oh, the satisfaction buying brings." Worth Magazine. October, 1998.
  42. Bordo, Susan. "'Material Girl': The Effacements of Postmodern Culture." Literary theory: An Anthology. Eds. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers, 1998.
  43. de Zengotita, Thomas. "The Numbing of the American Mind." Harper's Magazine. April, 2002.
  44. Gladwell, Malcolm. "The Talent Myth: Are Smart People Overrated?" The New Yorker. July 22, 2002.
  45. Parker, Ian. "Absolute Powerpoint: Can a Software Package Edit our Thoughts?" The New Yorker. May 28, 2001.
  46. Wilson, Cintra. "As a Dog Returneth to Its Own Vomit, So Doth L.A." A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined as a Grotesque, Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations. New York: Penguin Books, 2001.
  47. Eco, Umberto. "Enchanted Castles." (source and date unknown.)
  48. Eco, Umberto. "Eternal Fascism." New York Times Book Review. June 27th, 1995.
  49. The Onion (online.) "Grad Student Deconstructs Take-Out Menu." Last visited: 3/27/03.
  50. Writing Reference Material. Sources Vary.

a. Writing Research Papers.

b. Writing and Thinking Moves.

c. Becoming a Better Thinker.

d. Format Examples--First Page and MLA Citation

e. Sample Works Consulted

f. Sample Entries

g. Online Sources