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American Icon: Obama

weeklyrader.blogspot.com LAZINESS PREVENTS TWR FROM a full post this week (deadlines, pregnant wife, deadlines), so we offer instead a link to Monday's San Francisco Chronicle in which the TWR founder has an op-ed piece on Barack Obama and popular culture. You can read i...

Blog post by Dean Rader

Topics: Barack Obama and popular culture, San Francisco Chronicle, Obama tennis shoes, Obama and visual culture, SuperObama

Submitted by Colin Bean

Jul 14, 2008 at 08:16AM

American Icon: Candidate as pop-culture phenom

sfgate.com Dean Rader discusses Barack Obama's iconic status.

Article references Dean Rader

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Submitted by Sara Bassett

Jul 14, 2008 at 12:00AM

On TV

weeklyrader.blogspot.com TWO TELEVISION EVENTS LAST night had quite different but equally memorable effects on the staff here at TWR , and it reminded all of us here at the headquarters why everything seems that much lamer post basketball season and post The Wire . The f...

Blog post by Dean Rader

Topics: Bachelorette Finale, ABC News, Lipitor, drug company sponsoring news program, Bachelorette

Submitted by Colin Bean

Jul 08, 2008 at 01:20PM

Soundtrack of Summer: Alive or Dead

weeklyrader.blogspot.com LOYAL TWR READER AND former journalist Mike Spencer, now of Spencer Investigations (TWR was cleared of all charges), wrote in with one of the better questions of late: We no longer have a summer soundtrack. The movie Summer of Sam brought me back...

Blog post by Dean Rader

Topics: iTunes, music in commercials, summer soundtrack, death of radio and video

Submitted by Colin Bean

Jul 01, 2008 at 10:25PM

Floods and the Aesthetics of Destruction

weeklyrader.blogspot.com LIKE MANY PEOPLE, I have been struck by the photos of towns and farms in Iowa and Missouri submerged under the rising waters of the recent floods. I was also disturbed by how oddly compelling many of the photographs are--silos protruding from bea...

Blog post by Dean Rader

Topics: Cloudline, art and destruction, Virunga Gorilla, art and disaster, Katrina and art, Iowa floods, New Orleans art, aesthetics of disaster

Submitted by Colin Bean

Jun 25, 2008 at 12:54PM

Now that we have pop music, why do we still need poetry?

weeklyrader.blogspot.com The Professor of Pop poses this question as a comment to last week's post on poetry and popular culture. It's a good question; one that probably should be asked more often, but instead, poets, professors and publishers of poetry merely ask: why d...

Blog post by Dean Rader

Topics: Heidegger, readership of poetry, poetry and Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, poetry and popular culture, poetry and popular music

Submitted by Colin Bean

Jun 17, 2008 at 09:20AM

Poetry & Popular Culture

weeklyrader.blogspot.com IS POETRY TOO COMPLICATED for the average reader? This question begins a recent post from the engaging West End Journal on the relationship between poetry and popular culture. For years now, I have been puzzled by poetry's poor readership in the ...

Blog post by Dean Rader

Topics: poetry and popular culture, why Americans don't read poetry, popular poems, Katie Couric, poetry and average Americans

Submitted by Colin Bean

Jun 12, 2008 at 08:22AM

Sex and the City: A Review

weeklyrader.blogspot.com EVEN THOUGH THE BOROWITZ REPORT had me scared to death to see Sex and the City , I decided to brave the sexual orientation waters and wade into that space where, apparently, no straight man treadeth. In truth, Sex and the City isn't right out of ...

Blog post by Dean Rader

Topics: Sex and the City, summer soft-core, Summer movies for women

Submitted by Colin Bean

Jun 09, 2008 at 04:20PM

The Women and War Reader

amazon.com Jennifer Turpin and Lois Lorentzen edited and contributed to this 1998 book. It brings together the work of the foremost scholars on women and war to address questions of ethnicity, citizenship, women's agency, policy making, women and the war com...

Book by Lois Ann Lorentzen, Jennifer E. Turpin

Submitted by David Wolber

Jun 09, 2008 at 08:57AM

Reading Obama and Native America

weeklyrader.blogspot.com ON THIS NIGHT WHEN political culture meets mediated visual culture, it is interesting to keep in mind what the image of change actually looks like. Myrtle Strong Enemy, the oldest living woman on the Crow Reservation in Montana, might be asking f...

Blog post by Dean Rader

Topics: Barack Obama, semiotics of change, myrtle strong-enemy

Submitted by Colin Bean

Jun 03, 2008 at 11:02PM

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