The Semiotics of Consumption: Interpreting Symbolic Consumer Behavior in Popular Culture and Works of Art

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Walter de Gruyter, 2 янв. 2012 г. - Всего страниц: 377
The Semiotics of Consumption: Interpreting Symbolic Consumer Behavior in Popular Culture and Works of Art (Approaches to Semiotics).
 

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2 Romanticism
153
23 The quest
155
24 A universal impulse
156
25 Preview
157
3 The joys and sorrows of consumption
158
From romanticism to sentimentality
169
33 The age of sentiment
178
Faust gets saved
198

33 Preview
14
34 Problems and prospects in neopositivistic semiotic studies of consumer esthetics
15
35 Problems and prospects in the interpretive semiology of consumer esthetics
23
4 Criticisms and defenses of interpretive semiology
43
42 The critique and defense concerning the appeal to managerial relevance
53
5 Preview
60
Chapter II Semiotics and popular culture
61
2 The ideology of consumption
62
22 Dallas and Dynasty
63
23 Sacredness and secularity in motion pictures
85
3 Motion picture mythology
119
31 Introduction
120
32 What is a myth?
121
33 Analyzing myths
122
35 The structure of myths
123
36 Motion pictures as myths
124
37 Discussion
147
A literary approach to the joys and sorrows of consumption
151
Odysseus returns
211
4 Epilogue
225
Chapter IV Seven routes to facilitating the semiotic interpretation of consumption symbolism and marketing imagery in works of art
229
2 Prospects and problems dangers and difficulties
230
3 Seven routes to interpretation
235
4 Conclusion
241
Appendices
243
Beverly Hills cop
246
Tin men and the marketing concept
254
Gremlins as metaphors for materialism
265
Coastal disturbances coauthored with Stephen Bell and Mark W Grayson
277
Sacred and secular consumption imagery in A Christmas carol
286
Automotive signs in Two for the road
296
Major and minor uses of symbolic consumer behavior to develop plot and character in Out of Africa coauthored with Mark W Grayson
310
References
323
Index
353
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