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Abstract of
Media and Pop Culture
Rock ’n’ Roll and Horror Stories: Students, Teachers, and Popular Culture
Cynthia Lewis
This essay discusses student and teacher stances toward popular culture texts and suggests strategies for responding to popular culture in academic settings. Using examples drawn from adolescent boys' discussions of horror fiction and movies and girls' responses to series books, the author points out that comments and conversations that would not usually be sanctioned can find a place in the classroom. She goes on to describe the social uses of popular culture and advocates that “our roles as teachers should include teaching students to probe and resist popular culture texts in the same way that we ought to teach students to interact with canonized texts.”
Abstract from Lewis, C. (1998, October). Media and Pop Culture: Rock ’n’ Roll and Horror Stories: Students, Teachers, and Popular Culture. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 42(2), 116–121. doi: 10.1598/JAAL.42.2.8
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