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Preface for Instructors | v | |
Introduction: Popular Signs: Or, Everything You've Always Known about American Culture (But Nobody Asked) | 1 | |
Writing about Popular Culture | 21 | |
Part 1 | Cultural Productions | 43 |
1. | Consuming Passions: The Culture of American Consumption | 45 |
The More Factor | 55 | |
The Signs of Shopping | 62 | |
What's in a Package | 69 | |
Hard Bodies | 79 | |
Blue Jeans | 86 | |
The Semiotics of Home Decor | 94 | |
"Careful, You May Run Out of Planet": SUVs and the Exploitation of the American Myth | 105 | |
2. | Brought to You B(u)y: The Signs of Advertising | 117 |
The Parable of the Democracy of Goods | 129 | |
Masters of Desire: The Culture of American Advertising | 137 | |
A Gentleman and a Consumer | 149 | |
Sex, Lies, and Advertising | 160 | |
How Advertising Informs to Our Benefit | 180 | |
The Fiction of Truth in Advertising | 188 | |
Web of Deceit | 194 | |
Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz | 202 | |
Portfolio of Advertisements | 210 | |
3. | Video Dreams: The Signs of Music and Television | 223 |
A Tale of Two Sitcoms | 236 | |
The Oprah Winfrey Show and the Talk-Show Furor | 241 | |
Plotting Paternity: Looking for Dad on the Daytime Soaps | 249 | |
Signs of Intelligent Life on TV | 260 | |
Rewriting Popularity: The Cult Files | 265 | |
Twentysomethings | 276 | |
Bad Sistas | 279 | |
4. | The Hollywood Sign: The Culture of American Film | 289 |
The Thematic Paradigm | 299 | |
Creating the Myth | 308 | |
Braveheart, Babe, and the Contemporary Body | 317 | |
Malcolm X | 328 | |
So You Wanna Be a Gangsta? | 337 | |
Asian Women in Film: No Joy, No Luck | 349 | |
The Return of Doris Day | 357 | |
Class and Virtue | 366 | |
5. | It Was A Dark And Stormy Night: The Codes of Popular Literature | 371 |
The ABCs of Popular Culture | 382 | |
Selection from Blade Runner | 385 | |
Roadside Bones | 393 | |
Cult | 398 | |
Grisham Succeeds in a Novel Way | 414 | |
The Traditional Romance Formula | 418 | |
Selection from Dangerous Passions | 425 | |
Hope I Die before Marcia Gets Old | 428 | |
Reading at Escape Velocity | 430 | |
Part 2 | Cultural Constructions | 435 |
6. | We've Come A Long Way, Maybe: Gender Codes in American Culture | 437 |
Gender Role Behaviors and Attitudes | 447 | |
The Gender Blur: Where Does Biology End and Society Take Over? | 453 | |
Power at Play: Sport and Gender Relations | 460 | |
Boys-R-Us: Board Games and the Socialization of Young Adolescent Girls | 472 | |
The Beauty Myth | 481 | |
There Is No Unmarked Woman | 490 | |
Warrior Dreams | 496 | |
Women and Children First: Gender and the Settling of the Electronic Frontier | 505 | |
7. | Constructing Race: Readings in Multicultural Semiotics | 515 |
In Living Color: Race and American Culture | 526 | |
Put on a Happy Face: Masking the Differences Between Blacks and Whites | 538 | |
Funky White Boys and Honorary Soul Sisters | 549 | |
Goin' Gangsta, Choosin' Cholita | 562 | |
Baby | 568 | |
Being an Other | 570 | |
How to Tame a Wild Tongue | 575 | |
The Classroom and the Wider Culture: Identity as a Key to Learning English Composition | 583 | |
The Haves and the Have-Nots | 593 | |
8. | Life on the Margins: Representing the "Other" in American Culture | 599 |
Signs of the Street: A Conversation | 609 | |
The Mind of the Militias | 618 | |
Race, Sex, AIDS: The Construction of "Other" | 625 | |
Beauty and the Battle | 636 | |
American Dreams | 640 | |
The End of Adulthood? | 645 | |
Don't Further Empower Cliques | 653 | |
9. | American Icons: The Mythic Characters of Popular Culture | 657 |
Be Like Mike? Michael Jordan and the Pedagogy of Desire | 667 | |
What Makes Superman So Darned American? | 677 | |
Batman, Deviance, and Camp | 686 | |
Lara Croft, the Bit Girl | 702 | |
Our Barbies, Ourselves | 706 | |
Barbie, G.I. Joe, and Play in the 1960s | 710 | |
Snap! Crackle! Plot! | 716 | |
Larger Than Life | 720 | |
10. | Popular Spaces: Interpreting the Built Environment | 733 |
Disney World: Public Use/Private State | 744 | |
The Science of Shopping | 757 | |
The Man-Made World | 764 | |
Spatial Segregation and Gender Stratification in the Workplace | 771 | |
Alternating Currents | 778 | |
The Ghetto Cityscape | 784 | |
Manifest Congestion: Freeway Landscapes and Timescapes | 790 | |
Country Music Goes on the Road | 797 | |
Glossary | 803 | |
Citing Sources | 807 | |
Index of Authors and Titles | 819 |
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