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Signs of Life in the USA

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Tenth  Edition©2021  Sonia Maasik; Jack Solomon

ISBN:9781319322823

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: Popular Signs: Or, Everything You Always Knew about American Culture (but Nobody Asked)

SECTION 1: FOUNDATIONS
Chapter 1. American Paradox: Culture, Conflict, and Contradiction in the U.S.A.
Chapter 2. My Selfie, My Self: Identity and Ideology in the New Millennium

SECTION 2: EVERYDAY LIFE
Chapter 3.  Consuming Passions: The Culture of American Consumption
Chapter 4. Brought to You B(u)y: The Signs of Advertising
Portfolio of Advertisements
Chapter 5. The Cloud: Semiotics and the New Media

SECTION 3: ENTERTAINMENT
Chapter 6.  On the Air: Television and Cultural Forms
Chapter 7. The Hollywood Sign: The Culture of American Film
Chapter 8. Tangled Roots: The Cultural Politics of Popular Music  

 

Sonia Maasik

Sonia Maasik, late of the UCLA Writing Programs, taught writing from developmental to advanced levels for over five decades. Along with Jack Solomon, she has co-authored the Bedford/St. Martin's textbooks Signs of Life in the U.S.A.: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers – now in its eleventh edition – and California Dreams and Realities.

Jack Solomon

Jack Solomon is Professor Emeritus of English at California State University, Northridge, where he taught literature, critical theory, and popular cultural semiotics, and directed the Office of Academic Assessment and Program Review. He is often interviewed by the California media for analysis of current events and trends. He is the author of Discourse and Reference in the Nuclear Age (1988) and The Signs of Our Time (1990). Along with Sonia Maasik, he has co-authored the Bedford/St. Martin's textbooks Signs of Life in the U.S.A.: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers – now in its eleventh edition – and California Dreams and Realities.