| Preface for Instructors |
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| Introduction: Popular Signs: Or, Everything You've Always Known About American Culture (But Nobody Asked) |
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Consuming Passions: The Culture of American Consumption |
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38 | (8) |
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46 | (10) |
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56 | (10) |
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66 | (6) |
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The Semiotics of Home Decor |
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72 | (11) |
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Disney World: Public Use/Private State |
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83 | (13) |
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96 | (5) |
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Brought to You B(u)y: The Signs of Advertising |
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The Parable of the Democracy of Goods |
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112 | (8) |
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Masters of Desire: The Culture of American Advertising |
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120 | (14) |
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134 | (3) |
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The Fiction of Truth in Advertising |
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137 | (7) |
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A Gentleman and a Consumer |
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144 | (11) |
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Sex, Lies, and Advertising |
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155 | (16) |
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171 | (18) |
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Portfolio of Advertisements |
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178 | (11) |
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Cheap Thrills: The Images of Music, Video, and TV |
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189 | (80) |
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Signs of Intelligent Life on TV |
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200 | (5) |
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TV's Anti-Families: Married...with Malaise |
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205 | (9) |
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214 | (3) |
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217 | (6) |
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Madonna: Plantation Mistress or Soul Sister? |
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223 | (8) |
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231 | (9) |
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Mountains of Contradictions: Gender, Class, and Region in the Star Image of Dolly Parton |
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240 | (16) |
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256 | (13) |
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The Hollywood Sign: The Culture of American Film |
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269 | (66) |
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278 | (9) |
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287 | (8) |
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Put on a Happy Face: Masking the Differences Between Blacks and Whites |
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295 | (11) |
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Asian Women in Film: No Joy, No Luck |
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306 | (8) |
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Dead White Male Heterosexual Poets Society |
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314 | (4) |
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318 | (4) |
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The Long Arm of What You Watch |
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322 | (3) |
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325 | (10) |
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Larger Than Life: The Mythic Characters of American Culture |
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335 | (68) |
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What Makes Superman So Darned American? |
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344 | (9) |
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The Cultural Meaning of the Kennedys |
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353 | (5) |
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Batman, Deviance, and Camp |
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358 | (17) |
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375 | (3) |
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378 | (3) |
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Advertising Characters: The Pantheon of Consumerism |
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381 | (10) |
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391 | (12) |
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| PART TWO ISSUES |
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We've Come a Long Way, Maybe: Gender Codes in American Culture |
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405 | (76) |
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Gender Role Behaviors and Attitudes |
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415 | (6) |
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The Symbolic Strategies of Chicago's Gay and Lesbian Pride Day Parade |
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421 | (7) |
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428 | (10) |
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438 | (9) |
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447 | (5) |
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There Is No Unmarked Woman |
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452 | (6) |
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Power at Play: Sport and Gender Relations |
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458 | (13) |
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The Fraternal Bond as a Joking Relationship |
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471 | (10) |
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The Race Card: Readings in Multicultural Semiotics |
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481 | (82) |
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In Living Color: Race and American Culture |
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491 | (13) |
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Goin' Gangsta, Choosin' Cholita |
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504 | (6) |
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The Rage of the Black Middle Class |
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510 | (9) |
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519 | (4) |
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On Being a Conceptual Anomaly |
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523 | (8) |
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The Classroom and the Wider Culture: Identity as a Key to Learning English Composition |
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531 | (10) |
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How to Tame a Wild Tongue |
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541 | (8) |
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Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective |
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549 | (8) |
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557 | (6) |
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Cultural Outlaws: Street Gangs, Militias, and Hackers in American Culture |
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563 | (70) |
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572 | (5) |
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The Praised and the Damned |
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577 | (15) |
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Image of Fear: Minority Teens Allege Bias in ``Gang Profiling'' |
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592 | (5) |
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Signs of the Street: A Conversation |
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597 | (10) |
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Not Just the Inner City: Well-to-Do Join Gangs |
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607 | (4) |
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611 | (7) |
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Hackers: The First Information Warriors |
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618 | (15) |
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Journals of the Plague Years: The Social Mythology of AIDS |
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633 | (66) |
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Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir |
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641 | (7) |
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648 | (10) |
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Race, Sex, AIDS: The Construction of ``Other'' |
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658 | (11) |
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669 | (8) |
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Portraits of People with AIDS |
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677 | (11) |
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688 | (11) |
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Virtual Culture: Signs in Cyberspace |
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699 | (61) |
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``Reality Is Death'': The Spirit of Cyberspace |
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706 | (14) |
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720 | (7) |
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727 | (3) |
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730 | (10) |
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Women and Children First: Gender and the Settling of the Electronic Frontier |
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740 | (8) |
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The Haves and the Have-Nots |
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748 | (4) |
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752 | (8) |
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| Appendix: Writing about Popular Culture |
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| Glossary |
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780 | (11) |
| Index of Authors and Titles |
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| Citing Sources |
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