Overview

Students are bombarded every day with media messages laden with rules: what makes our work valuable, our bodies ideal, our communities picture perfect. ""Acting Out Culture"" empowers students to use writing to speak back to their culture and question its rules. Featuring fresh readings by writers who lay bare and challenge the rules we live by, the second edition of ""Acting Out Culture"" gives students the tools they need to analyze and write critically about assumptions at the heart of cultural norms.""

Full Product Details

9780312624293

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

JAMES S. MILLER is an associate professor of American Studies and American Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he teaches a range of courses on twentieth-century popular and literary culture. His scholarship focuses on issues of public memory and middle-class identity in twentieth-century America, as well as the role of commodity culture in shaping historical consciousness. His essays exploring these topics have appeared in such journals as ""American Studies,"" the ""Journal of American Folklore, "" and ""The Public Historian."" His book, ""Managerial Memory: History, Heritage and the Invention of White-Collar Roots,"" will be published by the University of Michigan Press.""

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available