English 245: Popular Culture
Fall2008

(Under Construction)
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• **Michael Asimow —"How I Learned To Litigate At The Movies." ABA Journal. August 2008, 94.8 48-49.
• **Paul Barrett — “White Thumbs, Black Bodies: Race, Violence, and Neoliberal Fantasies in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.” The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 28.95–119, 2006.
• Jessica Bennett and Malcolm Beith — "Why Millions Are Living Virtual Lives Online." Newsweek.com
• Charlie Bertsch — "The Secret of the X-Files." Bad Subjects. 28, October 1996.
• Rebecca Blood — "Weblogs: A History and Perspective." RebeccaBlood.com September 7, 2000.
• **Gary Burns — “Popular Music, Television, and Generational Identity.” The Journal of Popular Culture. 129-141
• **Lisa M. Chuang & John P. Hart — “Suburban American Punks and the Musical Rhetoric of Green Day’s ‘‘Jesus of Suburbia’’ Communication Studies 59.3, July–September 2008, 183–201
• Brian Cowlishaw — Playing War: The Emerging Trend of Real Virtual Combat in Current Video Games, American Popular Culture January 2005.
• **Mike S. Dubose — “Holding Out for a Hero: Reaganism, Comic Book Vigilantes, and Captain America.” The Journal of Popular Culture, 40.6 2007 915-35.
• Christopher John Farley — "Hip Hop Nation." Time Magazine. February 8, 1999.
• Stuart Fischoff — "Confessions of a TV Talk Show Shrink." Psychology Today Sep/Oct 1995
• **June M. Frazer and Timothy C. Frazer — “Father Knows Best and The Cosby Show: Nostalgia and the Sitcom Tradition.” The Journal of Popular Culture 163-72.
• Lev Grossman — "The Masters of Meme." Time Magazine July, 9, 2008.
• **David Hajdu — “Where Has ‘Where Have All the Flowers Gone?’ Gone?” The New Republic June 28, 2004: 33-36.
• Virginia Heffernan — "The Many Tribes of YouTube." New York Times, May 27, 2007.
• Virginia Heffernan — "Serial Killers." New York Times Sunday Magazine, August 22, 2008.
• **Matthew Henry —‘‘ ‘Don’t Ask me, I’m Just a Girl’: Feminism, Female Identity, and The Simpsons.” The Journal of Popular Culture, 40.2, 2007: 272-303.
• **Ian Inglis — “The Ed Sullivan Show and the (Censored) Sounds of the Sixties.” The Journal of Popular Culture, 39.4, 2006: 558-75.
• "In Defense of Television." American Popular Culture, July 2005
• Steven Johnson — "Watching TV Makes You Smarter." New York Times Sunday Magazine, April 24, 2005.
• **Dustin Kidd — “Harry Potter and the Functions of Popular Culture.” The Journal of Popular Culture, 40.1, 2007 69-89.
• Janet Kornblum — "Meet My 5,000 New Best Pals." USA Today, September 20, 2006.
• **Mary Kosut — “An Ironic Fad: The Commodification and Consumption of Tattoos.” The Journal of Popular Culture. 39.6, 2006.
• Jeff Leeds — "The New Tastemakers." New York Times Sunday Magazine September 3, 2006.
• Steven Levy — "iPod Nation." Newsweek, July 26, 2004.
• **Robert Love — “Before Jon Stewart: The Growth Of Fake News. Believe It.” Columbia Journalism Review.
• **Roy Mark — “Gen Y's yen political yap” eWeek July 21, 2008
• **Sarah A. Matheson — "The Cultural Politics of Wife Swap: Taste, Lifestyle Media, and the American Family." Film & History, 37.2
• Brian McConnell — "Social Networks, from the 80s to the 00s." Gigacom, January 20, 2008.
• Leanne McRae — "Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Male Defeat." Bad Subjects. 61 September 2002.
• Ari Melber — "About Facebook." The Nation January 7, 2008.
• Justin Peters — "Jack of Smarts: Why the Internet Generation Loves to Play Poker." Washington Monthly May 2004
• James Poniewozik and Jeanne McDowell — "How Reality TV Fakes It." Time Magazine January. 29, 2006
• Mattathias Schwartz — "The Trolls Among Us", New York Times Sunday Magazine August 3, 2008
• A.O. Scott — "American Character and The Western." New York Times Video. Septermber, 1, 2008.
• **Anthony Sze-ai Shiu — “What Yellowface Hides: Video Games, Whiteness, and the American Racial Order. The Journal of Popular Culture. 39.1: 2006 109-125
• **Scott Spanbauer — "Safeguard Your Reputation While Socially Networking." PC World, October 2006.
• William Stephenson — "The Microserfs Are Revolting: Sid Meier's Civilization II." Bad Subjects 45, October 1999
• **Michael Stevens — "The iPod Experiments." Library Journal.
• **Peter Stromberg — “Elvis Alive?: The Ideology of American Consumerism.” The Journal of Popular Culture. 11-19
• **Carl S and Virgil Taylor — “Hip-Hop and Youth Culture: Contemplations of an Emerging Cultural Phenomenon.” Reclaiming Children and Youth 12.4 (Winter 2004): 251-53.
• Will Wright — "Dream Machines." Wired, April 2006.