Pop Perspectives: Readings to Critique Contemporary Culture

by Laura Gray-Rosendale

Pop Perspectives provides students with a solid intellectual foundation in critical thinking, reading, writing, and classical argument through up-to-date, popular culture models, exercises, and assignments that are immediately relatable to the student's world.

720 pages, Paperback

First published April 26, 2007

About the author

Dr. Laura Gray-Rosendale is a President's Distinguished Teaching Fellow and a Professor of English at Northern Arizona University where she also directs a Writing Program for "at risk" freshmen college students. Laura's areas of interest include creative nonfiction, popular culture, rhetorical history, philosophy theory, and gender studies. She is an avid animal lover, trail runner (and a sometimes mountain biker.)

Reviews

[Yarg Notnih · Rating 5 out of 5]

Now more than ever, pop culture deserves a place in our classrooms. People are constantly engaging it and often we do not perceive it. The cultural awareness aspect of this book alone warrants its usefulness to teachers in high schools. How often do we try and connect classics like Beowulf to modern day things such as that awful movie adaptation! I think that deconstructing pop culture using the "meta language" Florence mentioned that we teach is a much more pragmatic approach to building meaning and connection to literature. Yay for this book! (I can use grammar 1 for a review can't I?)

[Jeffrey · Rating 2 out of 5]

I hate these kinds of readers. Really, let's pander to the laziness of the student and give them essays that are full of fluff and meaningless drivel. Sorry, Charlie and Charlotte, not in my class.