Indicates selections new to this edition
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
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
19-Inch Neighborhood, Joshua Meyrowitz
Walter's Theater of Revenge, Mark Crispin Miller
Watching, Alexander Nehamas
The Home Magazine Kitchen, Donald Norman
Peek-a-Boo World, Neil Postman
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
Lies and Advertising, Gloria Steinem
Machine in the Kitchen, John Thorne
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
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