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9780312136314

Signs of Life in U. S. A.

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312136314

  • ISBN10:

    0312136315

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1997-02-01
  • Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

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Table of Contents

Preface for Instructors iii
Introduction: Popular Signs: Or, Everything You've Always Known About American Culture (But Nobody Asked) 1(18)
PART ONE IMAGES 19(384)
Consuming Passions: The Culture of American Consumption
21(80)
The More Factor
31(7)
Laurence Shames
The Signs of Shopping
38(8)
Anne Norton
What's in a Package
46(10)
Thomas Hine
Street Style
56(10)
Ted Polhemus
Hard Bodies
66(6)
Stuart Ewen
The Semiotics of Home Decor
72(11)
Joan Kron
Disney World: Public Use/Private State
83(13)
Susan Willis
Toys
96(5)
Roland Barthes
Brought to You B(u)y: The Signs of Advertising
101(88)
The Parable of the Democracy of Goods
112(8)
Roland Marchand
Masters of Desire: The Culture of American Advertising
120(14)
Jack Solomon
Generation X-Force
134(3)
Leslie Savan
The Fiction of Truth in Advertising
137(7)
Patricia J. Williams
A Gentleman and a Consumer
144(11)
Diane Barthel
Sex, Lies, and Advertising
155(16)
Gloria Steinem
The Death of Discourse
171(18)
Ronald K.L. Collins
David M. Skover
Portfolio of Advertisements
178(11)
Cheap Thrills: The Images of Music, Video, and TV
189(80)
Signs of Intelligent Life on TV
200(5)
Susan Douglas
TV's Anti-Families: Married...with Malaise
205(9)
Josh Ozersky
Twentysomethings
214(3)
Walter Kirn
Hating What Sucks
217(6)
Douglas Rushkoff
Madonna: Plantation Mistress or Soul Sister?
223(8)
bell hooks
Bad Sistas
231(9)
Tricia Rose
Mountains of Contradictions: Gender, Class, and Region in the Star Image of Dolly Parton
240(16)
Pamela Wilson
The Politics of Irony
256(13)
Alex Ross
The Hollywood Sign: The Culture of American Film
269(66)
The Thematic Paradigm
278(9)
Robert B. Ray
The Return of Doris Day
287(8)
Sandra Tsing Loh
Put on a Happy Face: Masking the Differences Between Blacks and Whites
295(11)
Benjamin Demott
Asian Women in Film: No Joy, No Luck
306(8)
Jessica Hagedorn
Dead White Male Heterosexual Poets Society
314(4)
Tania Modleski
Class and Virtue
318(4)
Michael Parenti
The Long Arm of What You Watch
322(3)
Michael Medved
Malcolm X
325(10)
Shelby Steele
Larger Than Life: The Mythic Characters of American Culture
335(68)
What Makes Superman So Darned American?
344(9)
Gary Engle
The Cultural Meaning of the Kennedys
353(5)
Steven Stark
Batman, Deviance, and Camp
358(17)
Andy Medhurst
Our Barbies, Ourselves
375(3)
Emily Prager
Say It Ain't Cool, Joe
378(3)
Wanda Coleman
Advertising Characters: The Pantheon of Consumerism
381(10)
McCrea Adams
Larger Than Life
391(12)
Jenny Lyn Bader
PART TWO ISSUES 403(357)
We've Come a Long Way, Maybe: Gender Codes in American Culture
405(76)
Gender Role Behaviors and Attitudes
415(6)
Holly Devor
The Symbolic Strategies of Chicago's Gay and Lesbian Pride Day Parade
421(7)
Richard K. Herrell
The Beauty Myth
428(10)
Naomi Wolf
The Centerfold Syndrome
438(9)
Gary R. Brooks
Women's Language
447(5)
Robin Tolmach Lakoff
There Is No Unmarked Woman
452(6)
Deborah Tannen
Power at Play: Sport and Gender Relations
458(13)
Michael A. Messner
The Fraternal Bond as a Joking Relationship
471(10)
Peter Lyman
The Race Card: Readings in Multicultural Semiotics
481(82)
In Living Color: Race and American Culture
491(13)
Michael Omi
Goin' Gangsta, Choosin' Cholita
504(6)
Nell Bernstein
The Rage of the Black Middle Class
510(9)
Sam Fulwood III
Freedom From Choice
519(4)
Brian A. Courtney
On Being a Conceptual Anomaly
523(8)
Dorinne K. Kondo
The Classroom and the Wider Culture: Identity as a Key to Learning English Composition
531(10)
Fan Shen
How to Tame a Wild Tongue
541(8)
Gloria Anzaldua
Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective
549(8)
Leslie Marmon Silko
Diverse New World
557(6)
Cornel West
Cultural Outlaws: Street Gangs, Militias, and Hackers in American Culture
563(70)
Faro
572(5)
Leon Bing
The Praised and the Damned
577(15)
Anne Campbell
Image of Fear: Minority Teens Allege Bias in ``Gang Profiling''
592(5)
Julie Gannon Shoop
Signs of the Street: A Conversation
597(10)
Sonia Maasik
Jack Solomon
Not Just the Inner City: Well-to-Do Join Gangs
607(4)
Seth Mydans
The Mind of the Militias
611(7)
Peter Doskoch
Hackers: The First Information Warriors
618(15)
Winn Schwartau
Journals of the Plague Years: The Social Mythology of AIDS
633(66)
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
641(7)
Paul Monette
AIDS and Its Metaphors
648(10)
Susan Sontag
Race, Sex, AIDS: The Construction of ``Other''
658(11)
Evelynn Hammonds
Making Kitsch from AIDS
669(8)
Daniel Harris
Portraits of People with AIDS
677(11)
Douglas Crimp
Lights, Camera...Death
688(11)
Elinor Burkbtt
Virtual Culture: Signs in Cyberspace
699(61)
``Reality Is Death'': The Spirit of Cyberspace
706(14)
Mark Slouka
Cyberpunk
720(7)
Phillip Elmer-DeWitt
Christmas Unplugged
727(3)
Amy Bruckman
Who Am We?
730(10)
Sherry Turkle
Women and Children First: Gender and the Settling of the Electronic Frontier
740(8)
Laura Miller
The Haves and the Have-Nots
748(4)
Lynnell Hancock
Keypad Democracy
752(8)
Lawrence K. Grossman
Appendix: Writing about Popular Culture 760(20)
Glossary 780(11)
Index of Authors and Titles 791
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