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Author: Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2014-10-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781502704139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSigns in Contemporary Culture is an introduction to the science of semiotics. It is unusual in that it has an application for every semiotic concept it discusses so readers can see how semiotics can be applied to many aspects of everyday life.
Author: Arthur Asa Berger
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 212
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Crystal L. Downing
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2012-05-15
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 083086685X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCrystal Downing brings the postmodern theory of semiotics within reach for today's evangelists. Following the idea of the sign through Scripture, church history and the academy, Downing shows you how signs work and how sensitivity to their dynamics can make or break an attempt to communicate truth.
Author: Marshall Blonsky
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1985-08
Total Pages: 600
ISBN-13: 9780801830075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContributors include Roland Barthes, Michel de Certeau, Jacques Derrida, Edmundo Desnoes, Umberto Eco, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan, Thomas A. Sebeok, and others.
Author: Sonia Maasik
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 824
ISBN-13: 9780312136314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-06-16
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1315415844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArthur Asa Berger is back with the second edition of his popular, user-friendly guide for students who want to understand the social meanings of objects.
Author: Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780803957343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArthur Asa Berger's unique ability to translate difficult theories into accessible language makes this book an ideal introduction to cultural criticism. Berger covers the key theorists, concepts, and subject areas, from literary, sociological and psychoanalytical theories to semiotics and Marxism. Cultural Criticism breathes new life into the discipline by making these theories relevant to students' lives. The author illustrates his explanations with excerpts from classic works giving readers a sense of the important thinkers' styles and helping place them in their context. Berger also provides a comprehensive bibliography on cultural criticism for those who wish to explore the topics at greater length. Cultural Criticism is the perfect undergraduate supplemental text for such courses as media studies, literary criticism, and popular culture.
Author: Robert McRuer
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2006-06
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 081475712X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMcRuer makes a case that queer and disabled identities, politics, and cultural logics are inexorably intertwined, and that queer and disability theory need one another. Crip theory makes clear that no cultural analysis is complete without attention to the politics of bodily ability and 'alternative corporealities'.
Author: Gretchen Bender
Publisher: New Press
Published: 1998-01-30
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9781565844964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith contributions by: Laurie Anderson Stanley Aronowitz Gretchen Bender Gary Chapman James Der Derian Timothy Druckrey Billy Kl�ver Les Levidow R.C. Lewontin Joan H. Marks Margaret Morse Simon Penny Kevin Robins Avital Ronell Tricia Rose Andrew Ross Elaine Scarry Herbert I. Schiller Wolfgang Schirmacher Paula A. Treichler Langdon Winner Kathleen Woodward Discussions in Contemporary Culture is an award-winning series co-published with the Dia Center for the Arts in New York City. These volumes offer rich and timely discourses on a broad range of cultural issues and critical theory. The collection covers topics from urban planning to popular culture and literature, and continually attracts a wide and dedicated readership.
Author: Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-12
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1351507095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
