Ch.
11 Pop
Culture |
James
McBride, Hip Hop Planet |
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[video] http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/video/player#/?titleID=hip-hop-1-out-of-africa&catID=8 |
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Four documentary clips that accompany the National Geographic article. |
Mark
Twain, Corn-Pone Opinions |
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[text] http://justoneopinion.com/corn-pone-opinions |
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Blog
entry responding to the ideas in Mark Twain’s Corn-Pone Opinions. |
Scott
McCloud, Show and Tell |
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[video] http://www.ted.com/talks/scott_mccloud_on_comics.html |
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Scott McCloud gives a presentation on the mechanics, history, and
development of comics. |
Robin Givhan, An Image a Little Too
Carefully Coordinated |
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[text] http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-07-20-roberts-family_x.htm |
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Another article on John Roberts & his family (picture included). |
Steven
Johnson, Watching TV Makes You Smarter |
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[audio & text] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4663852 |
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Steven Johnson talks with NPR about complex narratives in television. |
Chuck Klosterman, My Zombie, Myself:
Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead |
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[text] http://content.usatoday.com/communities/livefrom/post/2011/07/zombie-romance-isaac-marion-spreads-love-with-warm-bodies/1 |
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“Warm Bodies” by Isaac Marion. Both an example of and an exception to the
current trends in paranormal romance and movies. |
Hans Ostrom, Emily
Dickinson and Elvis Presley in Heaven |
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[website] http://www.ovguide.com/hans-ostrom-9202a8c04000641f80000000055a2b3a |
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Web page featuring links to Hans Ostrom's personal YouTube videos, which feature
readings of his poems. |
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[text] http://voicealpha.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/poetry-aloud-websites-hans-ostroms-you-tube-channel/ |
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An interview
with Hans Ostram about his YouTube channel. |
Andy
Warhol, Myths (painting) |
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[website] http://www.warhol.org/collection/art/ |
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Web page with
links to online galleries of Andy Warhol’s art and information on the Andy
Warhol Museum. |
Mark Tansey, The
Innocent Eye Test (painting) |
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[text] http://www.101bananas.com/art/innocent.html |
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An illuminating quote from Mark Tansey about his art. |
Thomas
Friedman, The Revolution is U.S. |
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[video] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXI0VsX4NKI |
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Thomas Friedman talks about globalization after 9/11. |
Heather Havrilesky, Besieged by ‘Friends’ |
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[audio] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1334785 |
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NPR talks with director Charles Stuart about his documentary, Hollywood and the Muslim World. |
Deirdre Straughan, Cultural
Hegemony: Who’s Dominating Whom? |
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[text] http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2001/10/02/globalization-vs-local-culture/ |
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A second
article by Deirdre Straughn on the notion of
globalization and intercultural interaction. |
Kwame Anthony Appiah,
from The Case for Contamination |
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[audio] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5168294 |
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Kwame Anthony Appiah discusses his views
on Cosmopolitanism. |
Joseph
S. Nye Jr., The U.S. Can Reclaim ‘Smart’ Power |
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[audio & text] http://www.npr.org/2011/02/01/133406857/in-digital-age-future-of-power-must-be-smart |
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Joseph S. Nye, Jr. discusses the balance of hard and soft power—what he
calls “smart power”—in a developing world. |
Hassan Ammar, Slovakian
Soccer Fan at 2010 World Cup in South Africa (photo) |
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[website] http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/hassan-ammar/2267/t/photos/ |
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Washington
Times archive
of Hassan Ammar’s photography. |