Popular Culture: A Broadview Topics Reader - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554814901 ISBN 13: 9781554814909

Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd, 2019

Synopsis

This thematic reader offers more than thirty nonfiction pieces on aspects of popular culture.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Popular Culture: A Broadview Topics Reader is an accessible collection of non-fiction writing for composition students and students of popular culture. The anthology takes an expansive view of its subject, encompassing advertising, code-switching, social media, emerging technologies, the body positivity movement, cultural appropriation, and more. A wide variety of genres are represented, from personal and literary essays to journalism and academic writing.

Selections are arranged by theme; the book also includes an alternative table of contents listing material by genre and rhetorical style, as well as suggested pairings of pieces that complement each other. Headnotes, explanatory notes, and discussion questions facilitate student engagement with each piece. A selection of color images features advertisements, journalistic photography, and other materials that aim to prompt classroom discussion.

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1554814901
• ISBN 13: 9781554814909
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Buzzard Laura, LePan Don, Ruddock Nora, Stuart Alexandria