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Acculturated : 23 Savvy Writers Find Hidden Virtue in Reality TV, Chic Lit, Video Games, and Other Pillars of Pop Culture.
Contemporary popular culture, from books to film to television to music to the deepest corners of the internet, has provoked a great deal of criticism, some of it well deserved. Yet for many Americans, and particularly for younger Americans, popular culture is culture. It is the only kind of cultura...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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West Conshohocken :
Templeton Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Part 1: Love in a Time of Reality TV; 1. Sex, Lies, and YouTube; 2. Monster Mashup: How Our Culture's Heroes and Villains Have Traded Places; 3. Chick Lit and the Master/Slave Dialectic; 4. Lonely Hearts Online: Why I'm Glad I Didn't Meet My Husband on Match.com; 5. In My Humble Opinion: Why Americans Still Need Advice Columnists; 6. All the President's Friends: The Challenge of Loyalty in Politics; Part 2: Smells Like Teen Spirit; 7. An Unnatural Habitat: The Separate Lives of Adolescents.
- 8. The Achievement Trap: How Overparenting Undermines CharacterPart 3: At Your Leisure; 9. Games People Play--Together; 10. Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Why Pro Athletes Aren't Heroes; 11. Performance Art: The Faux Creativity of Lady Gaga; 12. Project Runway: The Surprising Virtues of Style; 13. Back to Betty Crocker: Why Everyday Cooking Matters; 14. In Search of the Next Great American Songbook; Part 4: Building a Better You; 15. Controlling Our Bodies, Controlling Ourselves; 16. Public Broadcasting: The Allure of Overexposure; 17. Lessons for Life: The Virtues of Continuing Education.
- 18. Death Be Not Chic19. The American Dream, Twenty-Two Minutes at a Time; 20. Utopian Virtues; 21. Never Having to Say You're Sorry: The Challenges of Forgiveness in an Age of Relativism; Contributors.