Every student will present one reading to the class. Presenters should summarize the reading's main points, assess its strengths and weaknesses, and provide some initial ideas to guide the discussion. All students will be prepared to participate in class discussions of the readings, so the presenter's duty is to begin that discussion. Every presenter must provide me a thorough outline of their presentation on the day of the presentation or lose half of their reading presentation credit.

The line ABOVE the reading indicates the person who is presenting that reading: please do not get confused and prepare the wrong reading for class.

Email me if you have any questions.

January 25

   Justin Taylor                                                                            .

• "Eddie Shack was no Tim Horton": Donuts and the Folklore of Mass Culture in Canada (in Food Nations)
   

    Travis Combs                                                                           .

• Individual and Neo-Tribal Consumption: Tales from the Simpsons of Springfield (Steve Cooper, Damien McLoughlin, and Andrew Keating, Journal of Consumer Behavior 4(5):330-344 [2005]).
   

   Marissa Irvine                                                                            .

• Will You Marry Me?:  Spectacle and Consumption in the Ritual of Marriage Proposals (Phillip Vannini, Journal of Popular Culture 38(1):169-185 [2004]).

February 1

    Dian Wiese-Schobert                                                                           .

• Rubbish, Chapter 1, Yes, Wonderful Things; Rubbish, Chapter 3, What We Say, What We Do; Rubbish, Chapter 6, A Garbage Census?
   

    Shane Burham                                                                           .

• Domesticating the French Fry: McDonald's and Consumerism in Moscow (Melissa L. Caldwell, Journal of Consumer Culture 4(1):5-26 [2004]).

February 8

   Elizabeth Hoadley                                                                            .

• Domesticating Barbie: An Archaeology of Barbie Material Culture and Domestic Ideology  (Pearson, Marlys J and Paul R. Mullins,  International Journal of Historical Archaeology 3(4):225-259 [1999])
   

    Tyler Nowell                                                                           .

• "Take Those Old Records off the Shelf": Youth and Music Consumption in the Postmodern Age (David Hayes, Popular Music and Society 9(1):51-68 [2006]).
   

    James Quint                                                                           .

• A Soldier's Body: GI Joe, Hasbro's Great American Hero, and the Symptoms of Empire (Karen J. Hall, Journal of Popular Culture 38(1):34-54 [2004]).

February 15

     Elisabeth Hegmann                                                                          .

• Rituals of Pleasure in the Land of Treasure: Wine Consumption and the Making of French Identity in the Late Nineteenth Century (in Food Nations)
   

    Freida Cormack                                                                           .

• Untangling Alliances: Social Tensions Surrounding Independent Grocery Stores and the Rise of Mass Retailing (in Food Nations)
   

   Matt Durett                                                                            .

• Paradox and the Consumption of Authenticity through Reality Television (Randall L. Rose and Stacy L. Wood, Journal of Consumer Research 32284-296 [2005]). 

February 22

   Marisa Diedrich                                                                            .

• Bottled Water: The Pure Commodity in the Age of Branding (Richard Wilk, Journal of Consumer Culture 6(3):303-325 [2006]).
   

   James Seikel                                                                            .

• Pushing Speed? The Marketing of Fast and Convenience Food (Joanna Brewis and Gavin Jack, Consumption, Markets and Culture 8(1):49-67 [2005]).
   

   Melissa Raveed                                                                            .

• Working Out: Consumers and the Culture of Exercise (Barbara J. Phillips, Journal of Popular Culture 38(3):525-551 [2005]).

March 1

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• Introduction: Subculture and Style (Hebdige, pp.1-22); Hipsters, Beats and Teddy Boys (Hebdige, pp.46-70)
   

   Courtney Singleton                                                                            .

• Disentangling the Paradoxical Alliances Between Art Market and Art World (Joy Annamma and John F. Sherry, Jr., Consumption, Markets and Culture 6(3):155-181 [2003]). 

March 8

   Kim Kelley                                                                            .

• The Function of Subculture (Hebdige, pp.73-89); Subculture: the Unnatural Break (Hebdige, pp.90-99); Style as Intentional Communication (Hebdige, pp.100-127)
   

   Stefanie Gerber                                                                            .

• Dismantling Mantlepieces:  Narrating Identities and Materializing Culture in the Home (Rachel Hurdley, Sociology 40[4]:717-733).
   

   Danielle Laycock                                                                            .

• Haggling Spoken Here: Gender, Class, and Style in US Garage Sale Bargaining (Gretchen M. Hermann, Journal of Popular Culture 38(1):55-81 [2004]).

March 22

   Nick Speth                                                                            .

• As American as Budweiser and Pickles?: Nation-Building in American Food Industries (in Food Nations)
   

    Mariann Hosler                                                                           .

• The Cultural Landscape of Interplanetary Space (Alice Gorman, Journal of Social Archaeology 5:85-107 [2005])
   

    Tabatha Bishopp                                                                           .

• Food and Nationalism: The Origins of "Belizean Food" (in Food Nations)

March 29

   Kellie Lippie                                                                            .

• "The Unbearable Lightness of Cleaning": Representations of Domestic Practice and Products in Good Housekeeping Magazine (UK): 1951-2001.  (Lydian Martens and Sue Scott, Consumption, Markets and Culture 8(4):379-401 [2005]).
   

  Trista Larson                                                                             .

• Televised Consumption: Women, Advertisers and the Early Daytime Television Industry (Inger Stole, Consumption, Markets & Culture 6(1):65-80 [2003])

April 5

    Isabel Rodriguez                                                                          .

• Spears' Space: The Play of Innocence and Experience in Bare-Midriff Fashion (Dennis Hall, Journal of Popular Culture 39(6):1025-1034 [2006]). 
   

   Meghan Lyons                                                                            .

• This is Just for Me(n): How the Regulation of Post-Feminist Lingerie Advertising Perpetuates Woman as Object (Dee Amy-Chin, Journal of Consumer Culture 6(2):155-175 [2006]).
   

   Kara Lewis                                                                            .

• He's Gotta Have It: Shopping Dependence and the Homosexual Male Clothing Consumer (Christopher A. Dodd, Amanda Linaker, and Nigel Grigg, Journal of Consumer Behavior 4(5):374-389 [2005]).
   

    Britney Baxter                                                                           .

• How Do Men Grab the Phallus?:  Gender Tourism in Everyday Consumption (Craig J. Thompson and Douglas B. Holt, Journal of Consumer Culture 4(3):313-338 [2004]).

April 12

    Sumner Brown                                                                           .

• `It's Not Forever': The Material Culture of Hope (Fiona R. Parrott, Journal of Material Culture 10(3):245-262 [2005]).
   

    Joe Bautista                                                                           .

• Words in Stone?: Agency and Identity in a Nazi Landscape (Sharon Macdonald, Journal of Material Culture 11(1/2):105-126 [2006]).
   

     Jillian Schleicher                                                                          .

• Expertise and Inability: Cultured Materials and the Reason for Some Retreating Lawns in London (Russell Hitchings, Journal of Material Culture 11(3):364-381 [2006]).

April 19

   Lacey Duncan                                                                            .

• Inventing Baby Food: Gerber and the Discourse of Infancy in the United States (in Food Nations)
   

   Ryan Gallagher                                                                            .

• Prisoners in Paradise: Subcultural Resistance to the Marketization of Tattooing (Anders Bengtsson, Jacob Osterberg, and Dannie Kjedlgaard, Consumption, Markets and Culture 8(3):261-274 [2005]).
   

   Denise Czachura                                                                            .

• An Ironic Fad: The Commodification and Consumption of Tattoos (Mary Kosut, Journal of Popular Culture 39(6):1035-1048 [2006]).
   

 Last updates January 22, 2007