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5 Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (New York: Atheneum, 1961), 240.
6 Ibid., 198.
7 Gabler, Life: The Movie, 4.
8 James Bradley, Flags of Our Fathers (New York: Bantam Books, 2000), 518-519.
9 Antonino D’Ambrosio, A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears (New York: Nation Books, 2009).
10 William Deresiewicz, “The End of Solitude,” The Chronicle of Higher Education 55:21 (30 Jan. 2009): B6.
11 Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm.
12 C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956), 74.
13 Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy (Transactions Publishers, London, 1957), 151.
14 Chris Rojek, Celebrity (London: Reaktion Books, 2001), 33-34.
15 Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (New York: Penguin, 1985), 80.
16 Emily Eakin, “Greeting Big Brother with Open Arms,” New York Times, Jan. 17, 2004: B9.
17 Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (New York: Vintage, 2001), 200-202.
18 Ibid., 209.
19 Ibid., 214.
20 Ibid., 235-237.
21 Cited in Gordon Burn, “Have I Broken Your Heart?” The Guardian, March 7 2009. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/07/gordon-burn.
22 My account of Jade Goody is informed by Burn, “Have I Broken Your Heart?” http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/07/gordon-burn.
23 Hannah Arendt, “The Crisis in Culture,” in Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought (New York: Penguin, 1993), 207.
24 ABC News, Living in the Shadows: Illiteracy in America, Feb. 25, 2008.
25 Statistics were obtained from the following sources: National Institute for Literacy, National Center for Adult Literacy, The Literacy Company, U.S. Census Bureau.
26 “Canada’s Shame,” The National, Canadian Broadcasting Company, May 24, 2006.
27 Cited in Frank Füredi, Where Have all the Intellectuals Gone? (New York: Continuum, 2004), 73.
28 Benjamin DeMott, “Junk Politics: A Voter’s Guide to the Post-Literate Election,” Harper’s Magazine (November 2003): 36.
29 Boorstin, The Image, 61.
30 Ibid., 255.
31 Gabler, Life: The Movie, 205.
32 Boorstin, The Image, 36.
33 Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion (New York: Free Press, 1997), 59.
34 Cited in Gabler, Life: The Movie, 197.
35 Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture (San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1977), 24.
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1 “The Directors,” Adult Video News (2005), 54.
2 Gag Factor. http://www.gagfactor.com/gagfactordotcom.html, accessed, April 5, 2009.
3 Postman, Amusing Ourselves, 3-4.
4 Marc Cooper, The Last Honest Place in America (New York: Nation Books, 2004), 42.
5 Robert Jensen, Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity (Cambridge, Mass.: South End Press, 2007), 126.
6 Bill Margold, quoted in Robert J. Stoller and I.S. Levin, Coming Attractions: The Making of an X-Rated Video (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1993), 31.
7 Gail Dines, “The White Man’s Burden: Gonzo Pornography and the Construction of Black Masculinity,” Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 18 (2006), 296-297.
8 Ibid., 297.
9 Scott Simon, host. “Promoting Healthcare for the Porn Industry,” Weekend Edition. National Public Radio, Dec. 8, 2007. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17044239.
10 Lubben, Shelley, and Jersey Jaxin. “Jersey Jaxin on Why She Quit Porn,” YouTube. Accessed Aug. 12, 2007. Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACLK5ccKfM and Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1NObcJV8r0&feature=related.
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1 Theodor Adorno, “Education after Auschwitz” (http://grace.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/frankfurt/auschwitz/AdornoEducation.pdf), 10.
2 Ibid., 6.
3 Charles Ting, “The Dormitories at U.C. Berkeley.” in Nader, Laura, et al., Controlling Processes: Selected Essays,