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Author : Wolfgang Fritz Haug
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Commodity Aesthetics, Ideology & Culture written by Wolfgang Fritz Haug and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victor Margolin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226505146
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Design Discourse written by Victor Margolin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-09-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editor has gathered together a body of writing in the emerging field of design studies. The contributors argue in different ways for a rethinking of design in the light of its cultural significance and its powerful position in today's society. The collection begins with a discussion of the various expressions of opposition to the modernists' purist approach toward design. Drawing on postmodernist theory and other critical strategies, the writers examine the relations among design, technology, and social organization to show how design has become a complex and multidisciplinary activity. The second section provides examples of new methods of interpreting and analysing design, ranging from rhetoric and semiotics to phenomenology, demonstrating how meaning is created visually. A final section related to design history shifts its emphasis to ideological frameworks such as capitalism and patriarchy that establish boundaries for the production and use of design.
Author : Thomas Richards
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804719018
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Commodity Culture of Victorian England written by Thomas Richards and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative and theoretically sophisticated book reveals how capitalism produced and sustained a culture of its own in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. "Richards provides a valuable account of the interaction between cultural and business development in Victorian England by focusing on the evolution of advertising. Through an examination of five case studies, ranging from how advertisers employed images of the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 to their use of images of women just before WWI, he argues that the British developed a new type of culture in the mid and late-19th century--a new way of thinking and living increasingly based upon the possession of material goods, commodities. Revising the findings of some earlier scholars, Richards shows that 'cultural forms of consumerism . . . came into being well before the consumer economy did.' The 50 well-reproduced advertising images greatly enhance the value of this study." --M. Blackford, "Choice"
Author : Mark A. Reid
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791433027
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (33 download)
Download or read book PostNegritude Visual and Literary Culture written by Mark A. Reid and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-03-06 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s and 1970s, the civil rights movement and other national and cultural movements fractured dominant paradigms of American identity and demanded a reformulation of American values and norms. This book borrows the moral, ethical, and political purposes of these movements to show how film, literature, photography, and television news broadcasts construct essentialist myths about race, gender, sexuality, and nation. It also examines how some visual and literary works and public reactions challenge these essentialist myths by exploring racial, sexual, and national anxieties.
Author : Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742541085
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (41 download)
Download or read book 50 Ways to Understand Communication written by Arthur Asa Berger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 50 Ways to Understand Communication, Arthur Asa Berger familiarizes readers with important concepts written by leading communication and cultural theorists, such as Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, de Certeau, McLuhan, Postman, and many others. Organized in fifty short segments, this concise guide covers a wide range of important ideas from psychoanalysis and semiology to humor, "otherness," and nonverbal communication. Berger's clear explanations surround this assortment of influential writing. This engaging, accessible book is essential for students of communication and anyone interested in how we communicate in a world of rapidly changing media.
Author : Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742553842
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (538 download)
Download or read book Media and Society written by Arthur Asa Berger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media and Society is a lively, illustrated introduction to the role that mass media--and the messages and texts they carry--play in our lives and our society. Arthur Asa Berger explores the time we spend with media, media aesthetics, ethics, audiences, media effects, technologies, violence and sexuality in media, and ownership. Media and Society helps us understand the relationship between consumers and media--the books, television, radio, magazines, web sites, video games, newspapers, movies, and other mass media we encounter every day. --Publisher.
Author : Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506366228
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Media Analysis Techniques written by Arthur Asa Berger and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Sixth Edition of Media Analysis Techniques, author Arthur Asa Berger once again provides students with a clearly written, user-friendly, hands-on guide to media criticism. The book empowers students to make their own analyses of the media rather than just accept how others interpret the media.
Author : Robert F. Carley
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030732126
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Cultural Studies Methodology and Political Strategy written by Robert F. Carley and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an intervention into cultural studies' theoretical and methodological foundations. It addresses a crisis in conjunctural analysis: that there is no theorized method for conjunctural analysis as it pertains to recognizing a conjunctural shift or the emergence of an organic crisis. This crisis is connected to the belief that the definition of the conjuncture is ambiguous in Gramsci’s work, but using a broader range of primary, secondary, and also untranslated sources on the conjuncture, Carley demonstrates that Gramsci has decisively settled that ambiguity. Through a philological approach to Gramsci’s original texts, this book alters the debate around conjunctural analysis and offers means to reinterpret cultural studies and its relationship to its founding thinkers.
Author : 0 The Rethinking Marxism Editorial Collective,
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100094350X
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Marxism written by 0 The Rethinking Marxism Editorial Collective, and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2006.In this issue as part of the run-up to the Rethinking Marxism 2006 conference to be held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, we devote a special section to “Setting in Motion,” the art exhibit curated by Susan Jahoda and Jesal Kapadia for RM06.
Author : Arthur Asa Berger, San Francisco State University
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442206705
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture written by Arthur Asa Berger, San Francisco State University and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2011-04-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its fourth edition, the popular Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture is an engaging cultural studies critique of contemporary advertising and its impacts on American society. Arthur Asa Berger looks at marketing strategies, sex and advertising, consumer culture, political advertising, and communication theory and process to give an accessible overview of advertising in America. This new edition features up-to-date examples and new theoretical material, including expanded discussions of a number of topics, such as Weber's study of religion and its role in consumption, the role of the unconscious and emotion in shaping consumer behavior, the way brands shape the behavior of 'mall girls,' sexuality and advertising, and Maslow's theory of needs. The book also comes complete with updated ads and Berger's signature drawings. Whether they are new to Berger's lively style of teaching and writing or loyal adopters, advertising and media professors will want to check out the latest edition of this text.
Author : Shirley Chew
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781387869
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Translating Life written by Shirley Chew and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together eighteen substantial essays by distinguished scholars, critics and translators, and two interviews with eminent figures of British theatre, to explore the idea and practice of translation. The individual, but conceptually related, contributions examine topics from the Renaissance to the present in the context of apt exploration of the translation process, invoking both restricted and extended senses of translation. The endeavour is to study in detail the theory, workings and implications of what might be called the art of creative transposition, effective at the level of interlingual transcoding, dynamic rewriting, theatrical and cinematic adaptation, intersemiotic or intermedial translation, and cultural exchange. Many of the essays focus on aspects of intertextuality, the dialogue with text, past and present, as they bear on the issue of translation, attending to the historical, political or cultural dimensions of the practice, whether it illuminates a gendered reading of a text or a staging of cultural difference. The historic and generic range of the discussions is wide, encompassing the Elizabethan epyllion, Sensibility fiction, Victorian poetry and prose, modern and postmodern novels, but the book is dominated by dramatic or performance-related applications, with major representation of fresh investigations into Shakespeare (from A Midsummer Night’s Dream to The Tempest) and foregrounding of acts of self-translation on stage, in the dramatic monologue and in fiction. Contributions from theatre practitioners such as Sir Peter Hall, John Barton and Peter Lichtenfels underscore the immense practical importance of the translator on the stage and the business of both acting and directing as a species of translation.
Author : Kuan-Hsing Chen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134881487
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Stuart Hall written by Kuan-Hsing Chen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-23 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A representative selection of Hall's enormously influential writings on cultural studies and Hall's engagement with urgent and abiding questions of 'race', ethnicity and identity.
Author : Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152755998X
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book USA Pop written by Arthur Asa Berger and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, written in an accessible style and illustrated with drawings by the author and numerous photographs, uses semiotics, psychoanalytic theory, and other cultural studies disciplines to analyze pop culture and everyday life in America. Each chapter contains numerous quotations of interest from writers and thinkers of all kinds, giving the book a documentary quality. Among the topics discussed are the social, psychological, and cultural significance of blue jeans, women’s handbags, hairstyles, hip hop fashion, nudism, wrestling, Donald Duck, and many other aspects of popular culture and everyday life in America. The book will be of use as a secondary text for courses in pop culture, cultural studies, fashion studies, American culture and society, material culture, and, since it is written in a lively and entertaining style, for the general reader.
Author : E. San Juan Jr.
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791425282
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Hegemony and Strategies of Transgression written by E. San Juan Jr. and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-03-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a radical, "Third World" approach to current debates on canon revision, multiculturalism, Eurocentrism, and reforms in education and culture.
Author : Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351507095
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Manufacturing Desire written by Arthur Asa Berger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The average person in America watches four hours of television per day and spends the equivalent of nine years of his or her life in front of the television set. If the attention most people devote to popular culture - listening to the news, watching soap operas, reading the comics-were added up, it would reveal that most people spend an enormous amount of time with popular culture which becomes in large measure, their culture. "Manufacturing Desire" is a study of how the mass media broadcast or spread various popular arts; further how the media and popular arts play a major role in shaping our everyday lives.The television shows we watch, the movies we see, the radio programs we listen to, and all the comic strips we read influence social behavior. They give us ideas about what is good and evil, about how to solve problems, and about how we should relate to others. If we understand this, says Berger, then the way we think about our media-influenced culture will be far different than if we see popular culture as mindless entertainment. Berger provides an analysis of the way popular culture and the mass media simultaneously reflect and affect various aspects of American culture and society. He examines commercials, television shows, comics, film, humor, and everyday life in terms of what beliefs and values are found in them, what attitudes toward ourselves, and our societies are contained in them, how they achieve their effects, and what they reflect about present-day American culture and society.This book is analysis of the impact mass media have across America, cross-culturally, and internationally. "Manufacturing Desire" will provide the general reader as well as specialists in communication and information, sociology, and psychology with a better understanding of the effects of mass media and popular culture on contemporary society.
Author : Matt Vidal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190695560
Total Pages : 865 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx written by Matt Vidal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Marx is one of the most influential writers in history. Despite repeated obituaries proclaiming the death of Marxism, in the 21st century Marx's ideas and theories continue to guide vibrant research traditions in sociology, economics, political science, philosophy, history, anthropology, management, economic geography, ecology, literary criticism, and media studies. Due to the exceptionally wide influence and reach of Marxist theory, including over 150 years of historical debates and traditions within Marxism, finding a point of entry can be daunting. The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx provides an entry point for those new to Marxism. At the same time, its chapters, written by leading Marxist scholars, advance Marxist theory and research. Its coverage is more comprehensive than previous volumes on Marx in terms of both foundational concepts and state-of-the-art empirical research on contemporary social problems. It is also provides equal space to sociologists, economists, and political scientists, with substantial contributions from philosophers, historians, and geographers. The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx consists of six sections. The first section, Foundations, includes chapters that cover the foundational concepts and theories that constitute the core of Marx's theories of history, society, and political economy. This section demonstrates that the core elements of Marx's political economy of capitalism continue to be defended, elaborated, and applied to empirical social science and covers historical materialism, class, capital, labor, value, crisis, ideology, and alienation. Additional sections include Labor, Class, and Social Divisions; Capitalist States and Spaces; Accumulation, Crisis, and Class Struggle in the Core Countries; Accumulation, Crisis, and Class Struggle in the Peripheral and Semi-Peripheral Countries; and Alternatives to Capitalism.
Author : Brian Leigh Molyneaux
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134546300
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book The Cultural Life of Images written by Brian Leigh Molyneaux and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pictures are often admired for their aesthetic merits but they are rarely treated as if they had as much to offer as the written word. They are often overlooked as objects of analysis themselves, and tend to be seen simply as adjuncts to the text. Images, however, are not passive, and have a direct impact that engages attention in ways independent of any specific text. Advertising, entertainment and propaganda have realised the extent of this power to shape ideas, but the scientific community has hitherto neglected the ways in which visual material conditions the ways in which we think. With subjects including prehistoric artworks, excavation illustrations, artists' impressions of ancient sites and peoples and contemporary landscapes, photographs and drawings, this study explores how pictures shape our perceptions and our expectations of the past. This volume is not concerned with the accuracy of pictures from the past or directly about the past itself, but is interested instead in why certain subjects are selected, why they are depicted the way they are, and what effects such images have on our idea of the past. This collection constitutes a ground-breaking study in historiography which radically reassesses the ways that history can be written.
