The person looking into PAPER CHASE might try Arthur Asa Berger's SIGNS IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE (1989)?The last chapter of this book does a semiotic reading of the film and TV show which might work well with beginning undergraduates. The book as a whole is introductory with an emphasis on liberal politics, basic semiotics, and neo-Freudian dabblings. Still, it teaches well. Bill Covey Purdue University [log in to unmask]