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In the middle of all this, another TONSIL book giveaway: Eric Deggans! David Von Drehle!

By Hank Stuever | October 31, 2012 | 0

More interesting-looking books have just come out, written by people I know and like. Act quick and you could get a copy for yourself. I’ve purchased TWO copies each of new books by David Von Drehle and Eric Deggans: Deggans, the extremely sharp and prolific TV/media critic for the Tampa Bay Times, is out with…

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Popular Culture Journalism (JOUR494): Class recap for Oct. 29 — What is this REALLY about?

By Hank Stuever | October 30, 2012 | 1

My day never really gets going until I read what Nancy Nall has to say, as well as her regular commenters. Reading her blog has been a daily habit for, gosh, maybe a decade now. Lately, both in class and in the Kaimin critiques on Friday (the student-run paper at the University of Montana), I’ve…

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Popular Culture Journalism (JOUR494): Class recap for Oct. 24 — television without pity

By Hank Stuever | October 25, 2012 | 1

Busy class on Wednesday. We finished up critiquing the personal essay riffs: Dustin on “Lost”; Cody on “The Gong Show” reruns; Ashley on “Supernatural” and boy bands; Allison on “The Office’s” Jim & Pam romance; and Carli on loving the ’80s, even though she missed the ’80s entirely. Good discussions. Then we talked about progress…

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Popular Culture Journalism (JOUR494): Class recap for Oct. 22 — personal essay critiques

By Hank Stuever | October 23, 2012 | 0

Although I didn’t plan it this way, it worked out nicely that Monday’s critique session in class was the day Alice Thorpe came to visit Journalism 494. Alice is the mother of Anthony Pollner, the Montana alum in whose memory all of this happens. She came from New York for her annual trip to visit…

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Popular Culture Journalism (JOUR494): Class recap for Oct. 17 — How they did that scene story

By Hank Stuever | October 19, 2012 | 0

We spent most of Wednesday’s class period talking about the five scene stories I assigned for readings. These are each different kinds of scene stories, and I want the students to keep these handy as they work on their own scene stories, due Nov. 7. The first one is a ride-along (literally), as Dan Zak…

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Popular Culture Journalism (JOUR494): Class recap for Oct. 15 — the divine scene story

By Hank Stuever | October 16, 2012 | 0

We’re delving into scene stories now, and what do I mean by that? It’s a feature that’s not too long, heavy on narrative and vivid detail, that takes a reader into a place they might not normally go, or were too busy to get to, or don’t have the access to. Reporting on a trial…

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Popular Culture Journalism (JOUR494): Class recap for Oct. 10 — Juggalos and other frights

By Hank Stuever | October 11, 2012 | 2

Today’s assignment was to watch Sean Dunne’s remarkable, 23-minute documentary, American Juggalo, and think about how you would have handled that assignment — to spend a couple of days in the midst of the juaggalos at their annual bacchanal in an Illinois campground each August. Factor in everything: the kind of people you’d be talking…

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Popular Culture Journalism (JOUR494): Class recap for Oct. 8 — personal essaying (continued)

By Hank Stuever | October 9, 2012 | 0

Quick-like, today. Once more with the personal essays on popular-culture forget-me-nots. Koestenbaum on Jackie Kennedy’s Zapruder moment. Rakoff on the fact that “Rent” is a piece of junk. Franzen on the heartbreaking perfection of Charlie Brown. Yeah, yeah, yeah we get it. THE PERSONAL ESSAY. (Did you even do the readings? I have my doubts.…

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Popular Culture Journalism (JOUR494): Class recap for Oct. 3 — Getting personal

By Hank Stuever | October 5, 2012 | 0

Just a quick recap today. I’m in Shreveport, La., for a long weekend to be a judge at the first-ever Louisiana Film Prize, where 20 short films are competing for a $50,000 win. It’s a big street party. With movies! Check it out. Meanwhile, back in Missoula … On Wednesday, we discussed three (almost four)…

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Popular Culture Journalism (JOUR494): Class recap for Oct. 1 — The Context of No-Context

By Hank Stuever | October 3, 2012 | 0

George W.S. Trow’s long essay about American culture and the irreversible effects of television on the national psyche, Within the Context of No-Context, was first published in the New Yorker’s Nov. 17, 1980, issue. It took up nearly the whole magazine. It changed people — and also irritated many. It still has the effect of…

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