Signs of life in the U.S.A. : readings on popular culture for writers /
... The goal of [the] text remains the traditional one of helping students become strong writers of argument and analysis, [but their] method departs from convention by using printed texts to guide students in the analysis and interpretation of an unwritten world: the world of American popular cultu...
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Boston :
Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press,
[1994]
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Table of Contents:
- Images: 1. Consuming passions: the culture of American consumption ;2. Brought to you b(u)y, the signs of advertising ; 3. M(ore) TV, the television and video revolution ; 4. The Hollywood sign:semiotics of American film ; 5. Larger than life: the mythic characters of American culture
- Issues: 6. Speak no evil: the politics of free speech : 7. A Gathering of tribes: multicultural semiotics ; 8. Street signs : gang culture in the U.S.A. ; 9. You've come along way, maybe: gender codes in American culture ; 10. Journals of the plague years, the social mythology of AIDS.