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ISBN 10: 1319213669
ISBN 13: 978-1319213664
Author: Sonia Maasik, Jack Solomon
Signs of Life in the USA helps you learn the practice of writing critically about pop culture–from tv and movies to music and social media–and have a bit of fun in the process. The authors provide both the framework and the language necessary to analyze our shared cultural experiences.
Signs of Life in the USA 10th Table of contents:
Section 1: Foundations
Chapter 1: American Paradox
Operation Varsity Blues
Six Contradictions That Count
Dying for Dollars: The Oxymoron of America’s Spiritual Materialism
Toddlers and Tiaras: Sexual Repression Meets the Profit Motive
The Pokémon Paradox: Individualism in a Mass Consumer Society
The 1 Percent: American Populism versus Economic Elitism
Oscars So White: The Enduring Legacy of Slavery
The Statutes of Liberty: Immigration Controversy in the Land of Immigrants
What’s Red and Blue and Mad All Over?
The Readings
Barbara Ehrenreich, Bright-Sided
George Packer, Celebrating Inequality
Mark Manson, The Disease of More
Mark Murphy, The Uncivil War: How Cultural Sorting of America Divides Us
Alfred Lubrano, The Shock of Education: How College Corrupts
Mariah Burton Nelson, I Won. I’m Sorry.
Wade Graham, Are We Greening Our Cities, or Just Greenwashing Them?
Chapter 2: My Selfie, My Self
It’s Not So Transparent
Who Are You?
Gender Codes
Postfeminist or Third Wave?
The Space for Race
The Great Divide
Generationx
Be Whatever You Want to Be
The Supermarket of IDs
The Readings
Michael Omi, In Living Color: Race and American Culture
Rachelle Hampton, Which People?
Zahir Janmohamed, Your Cultural Attire
Aaron Devor, Gender Role Behaviors and Attitudes
Deborah Blum, The Gender Blur: Where Does Biology End and Society Take Over?
Michael Hulshof-Schmidt, What’s in an Acronym? Parsing the LGBTQQIP2SAA Community
Rachel Lowry, Straddling Online and Offline Profiles, Millennials Search for Identity
Sophie Gilbert, Millennial Burnout Is Being Televised
Dave Patterson, Shame by a Thousand Looks
Kwame Anthony Appiah, What Does It Mean to “Look Like Me”?
Section 2: Everyday Life
Chapter 3: Consuming Passions
The CCI
#leggingsdaynd
The Handmaid’s Tale
Jeans, Spandex, Leotards, and Leg Warmers
Disposable Decades
A Tale of Two Cities
When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Go Shopping
The Readings
Laurence Shames, The More Factor
Malcolm Gladwell, The Science of Shopping
Jordyn Holman, Millennials Tried to Kill the American Mall, But Gen Z Might Save It
Michael Pollan, Supermarket Pastoral
Chris Arning, What Can Semiotics Contribute to Packaging Design?
Troy Patterson, The Politics of the Hoodie
Thomas Frank, Commodify Your Dissent
James A. Roberts, The Treadmill of Consumption
Chapter 4: Brought To You B(u)y
Going for Woke
And Here’s the Pitch
The Semiotic Foundation
The Commodification of Desire
The New Marketing
Populism versus Elitism
The Readings
Jack Solomon, Masters of Desire: The Culture of American Advertising
James B. Twitchell, What We Are to Advertisers
Joseph Turow, The Daily You: How the New Advertising Industry Is Defining Your Identity and Your Worth
Steve Craig, Men’s Men and Women’s Women
Jia Tolentino, How “Empowerment” Became Something for Women to Buy
Derek Thompson, The Four-Letter Code to Selling Just About Anything: What Makes Things Cool?
Juliet B. Schor, Selling to Children: The Marketing of Cool
Julia B. Corbett, A Faint Green Sell: Advertising and the Natural World
Portfolio of Advertisements
Chapter 5: The Cloud
Big Sister
The New Panopticon
The Medium Is the Mashup
“Pics or It Didn’t Happen”
Whose Space?
Shame on You
A Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Top-Down After All?
The Readings
Judy Estrin, I Helped Create the Internet, and I’m Worried about What It’s Doing to Young People
Alicia Eler, There’s a Lot More to a Selfie Than Meets the Eye
Judith Shulevitz, “Alexa, How Will You Change Us?”
Jesse Sell, Gamer Identity
David Courtwright, How “Limbic Capitalism” Preys on Our Addicted Brains
Nancy Jo Sales, From the Instamatic to Instagram: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
Jacob Silverman, “Pics or It Didn’t Happen”: The Mantra of the Instagram Era
Brooke Gladstone, Influencing Machines: The Echo Chambers of the Internet
John Herrman, Inside Facebook’s (Totally Insane, Unintentionally Gigantic, Hyperpartisan) Political-Media Machine
Section 3: Entertainment
Chapter 6: On the Air
From Mary Tyler Moore to The Handmaid’s Tale
Litchfield Is the New Mayberry
Writing about Television
From Symbols to Icons
And Now a Word from Our Sponsors
Reality Bites
The Readings
Neal Gabler, The Social Networks
Samantha Allen, How Euphoria and Model Hunter Schafer Created the Most Interesting Trans Character on TV
Claire Miye Stanford, You’ve Got the Wrong Song: Nashville and Country Music Feminism
Emily Nussbaum, The Aristocrats: The Graphic Arts of Game of Thrones
Massimo Pigliucci, The One Paradigm to Rule Them All: Scientism and The Big Bang Theory
Brittany Levine Beckman, Why We Binge-Watch Stuff We Hate
Chapter 7: The Hollywood Sign
Global Warming with a Vengeance
For Godzilla’s Sake!
The Culture Industry
Interpreting the Signs of American Film
Repetition with a Difference
Movies as Metaphors
The Readings
Robert B. Ray, The Thematic Paradigm
Christine Folch, Why the West Loves Sci-Fi and Fantasy: A Cultural Explanation
Linda Seger, Creating the Myth
Maya Phillips, The Narrative Experiment That Is the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Abraham Riesman, What We Talk about When We Talk about Batman and Superman
Matt Zoller Seitz, The Offensive Movie Cliché That Won’t Die
Mikhail Lyubansky, The Racial Politics of Black Panther
Jessica Hagedorn, Asian Women in Film: No Joy, No Luck
Michael Parenti, Class and Virtue
David Denby, High-School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies
Wesley Morris, Rom-Coms Were Corny and Retrograde. Why Do I Miss Them So Much?
Chapter 8: Tangled Roots
Get Back to Where You Once Belonged
It’s Been a Long Time Coming
The Turning Point
Country Road
The Ties That Don’t Bind
Rebels with a Cause: The Rebirth of the Protest Song
Coda: The Diva
The Readings
Nolan Gasser, Music Is Supposed to Unify Us. Is the Streaming Revolution Fragmenting Us Instead?
Clara McNulty-Finn, The Evolution of Rap
Nadra Nittle, Lil Nas X Isn’t an Anomaly
Jon Meacham and Tim Mcgraw, How Country Music Explains America’s Divided History
Christina Newland, A Cultural History of the Diva
DJ Louie XIV, Has the Pop Star Been Killed?
Daniel Person, When Did Pop Culture and Nature Part Ways?
Dani Deahl, Monsta X and Steve Aoki: How K-pop Took Over YouTube
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