| Description |
xii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Foundations of popular culture ; vol. 4 |
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Foundations of popular culture ; vol. 4
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| Contents |
Connotation. Denotation. Metaphor. Metonymy. Synchronic Analysis and Diachronic Analysis. Intertextuality. Auteur Theory. Syntagmatic Analysis. Paradigmatic Analysis. Structuralism -- 5. Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Criticism. The Unconscious. The Id. The Ego. The Superego. The Oedipus Complex. Condensation. Displacement. Narcissism. Sublimation. Overdetermination. Myth. Archetype. Heroes. Shadow. Anima/Animus -- 6. Sociological Theory and Cultural Criticism. Culture. Multiculturalism. DWEMs. Political Correctness. Anomie. Functionalism. Sacred/Profane. Mass Media Theory. Mass Society. Media/Medium. Audience. Stereotyping. Popular Culture. Everyday Life |
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1. An Introduction to Cultural Criticism. The Mission Impossible Dream. Cultural Criticism and Cultural Studies. On Technical Language. Making Complex Ideas Accessible. Thinkers Evolve and Change Their Ideas Over Time. A Useful Analogy -- 2. Literary Theory and Cultural Criticism. Mimesis and Other Theories of Literature. Texts. Genres and Texts. Interpretation of Texts. Hermeneutics. Reception Theory. Deconstruction. Postmodernism. Feminist Criticism. Phallocentric Theory. Formalism. Defamiliarization. Dialogical Theory. Montage and Meaning -- 3. Marxism and Cultural Criticism. Base/Superstructure. The Frankfurt School of Criticism. The Bourgeoisie. Class. Alienation. Commodity Fetishism. Consumer Culture. Interpellation. Ideology. Cultural Imperialism. Hegemony. Reproduction. Political Cultures -- 4. Semiotics and Cultural Criticism. Signs in Semiotics and Semiology. How Signs Function. Symbols in Saussure's System. Icon, Index, Symbol: Peirce's System. Images. Codes |
| Analysis |
Popular culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-178) and index |
| Subject |
Communism and culture.
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Criticism.
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Culture.
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Psychoanalysis and culture.
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Semiotics -- Social aspects.
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Sociology -- Methodology.
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| LC no. |
94035085 |
| ISBN |
0803957335 |
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0803957343 |
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