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American cultural symbols
American Nationalism
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Bonaventure Hotel
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Coney Island
Cowboys Stadium
cultural semiotic analysis
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Fenway Park
Football Games
Gateway Arch
Golden Gate Bridge
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Good Life
Grand Theft Auto
Grauman's Chinese Theater
iconic architecture interpretation
Important Tourist Attraction
Las Vegas Strip
Long House
Louis Gateway Arch
Mark Gottdiener
National Basketball Association
Paul Gauguin
semiotics of American landmarks
social theory applications
Space Needle
Superb
tourism studies
undergraduate cultural studies
Waikiki Beach
Water Fall
Wild Rivers
WTC Tower
Product details
- ISBN 9781611320398
- Weight: 294g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Oct 2011
- Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This brief, student-friendly introduction to the study of semiotics uses examples from 25 iconic locations in the United States. From Coney Island to Las Vegas, the World Trade Center to the Grand Canyon, Berger shows how semiotics offers a different lens in understanding locations taken for granted in American culture. He recasts Disneyland according to Freud, channels the Mall of America through Baudrilliard, and sees Mount Rushmore through the lens of Gramsci. A seasoned author of student texts, Berger offers an entertaining, non-threatening way to teach theory to undergraduates and that will fit ideally in classes on cultural studies, American studies, social theory, and tourism.
Arthur Asa Berger is professor emeritus of Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts at San Francisco State University, where he taught between 1965 and 2003. He graduated in 1954 from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts; he majored in Literature and minored in Philosophy and Art. He received a Master’s Degree in Journalism (but also studied at the Writers Workshop) from the University of Iowa in 1956 and was elected to the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication’s “Hall of Fame” in 2009. He received a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota in 1965. He wrote his dissertation on the comic strip Li’l Abner.In 1963 he had a Fulbright scholarship to Italy, and in 1983–84 was visiting professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He has also taught at Heinrich Heine University in Dusseldorf, Germany, at Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong, and in China at Jinan University in Guangzhou and Tsinghua University in Beijing. Over the years he has lectured in more than a dozen countries such as England, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco, Russia and Ukraine.He has published more than one hundred articles in publications such as The Journal of Communication, Society, Rolling Stone, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times, and more than sixty books on media, popular culture, humor, and tourism. Among his books are: Signs in Contemporary Culture: An Introduction to Semiotics; Seeing is Believing: An Introduction to Visual Communication; What Objects Mean: An Introduction to Material Culture; Media and Society; Media and Communication Research Methods; Making Sense of Media; Bloom’s Morning; Ads, Fads and Consumer Culture; and Shop ‘Til You Drop. His work has focused on the impact of media and popular culture on individuals and on American co
