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Childs, Peter.

Texts: contemporary cultural texts and critical approaches/ Peter Childs. - Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. - 177 p.; 24 cm.

Introduction: Starting Points;
1. Film: The Matrix and The I-pod; Approach: Cyberphilosophy;
2. Building: Shopping in Utopia; Approach: Spatial Criticism;
3. Movie Poster: Alien Nature; Approach: Ecocriticism;
4. Pop video: Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' and 'race'; Approach: 'Race' Studies;
5. Celebrity: Diana and Death; Approach: Trauma Theory;
6. TV show: Big Brother after the big Other; Approach: Performativity Theory;
7. Newspaper article: The Gulf War in Real Time and Virtual Space; Approach: Hyperreality;
8. Photograph(er): Cindy Sherman and the Masquerade; Approach: Feminism;
9. Political speech: Margaret Thatcher's Hymn at the Sermon on the Mound; Approach: Historicism;
10. Critical text: Alan Sokal's Sham Transgression; Approach: Reading Postmodernism;
11. Popular novel: The Ethics of Harry Potter; Approach: Ethical Criticism;
12. Short story: Barthelme's Balloon and the Rhizome; Approach: Deleuzian Criticism;
13. Lyric: 'Where's my Snare?': Eminem and Sylvia Plath; Approach: Psychoanalytic Criticism;
14. Autobiography: Martin Amis's Experience; Approach: Self-Life-Writing;
15. Virtual text: Amazonian Democracy; Approach: Globalization Studies;
16. World media event: It's About Time: Cultural History at the Millennium; Approach: Cultural Studies.

ISBN: 0748620443

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Criticism
Literature

Dewey Class. No.: 306 / CHI/T