Title Cultural criticism : a primer of key concepts / Arthur Asa Berger

Published Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 194 pages :) : illustrations Series Foundations of popular culture ; vol. 4 Foundations of popular culture ; v. 4. Contents 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 -- Conclusion -- 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 -- Conclusion -- 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 -- Connotation -- Denotation -- Metaphor -- Metonymy -- Synchronic analysis and diachronic analysis -- Intertextuality -- Auteur theory -- Syntagmatic analysis -- Paradigmatic analysis -- Structuralism -- Conclusion -- 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 -- Conclusion -- 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 -- Conclusion Summary Covering the key theorists, concepts and subject areas, from literary, sociological and psychoanalytical theories of semiotics and Marxism, Berger brings cultural criticism to life by making these theories relevant to students' lives. Illustrating his explanations with excerpts from classic works, he gives readers a sense of the style of important thinkers and helps place them in context Analysis Popular culture Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-178) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Culture Criticism Communism and culture. Semiotics -- Social aspects Psychoanalysis and culture. Sociology -- Methodology. Criticism Communism and culture Culture Semiotics -- Social aspects culture note. culture (concept) POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Communism and culture Criticism Culture Psychoanalysis and culture Semiotics -- Social aspects Sociology -- Methodology Psychoanalyse Marxismus Kulturtheorie Kultursoziologie Cultuurkritiek. Semiotiek. Communisme. Psychoanalyse. Cultuursociologie. Populaire cultuur. Form Electronic book LC no. 94035085 ISBN 9781452221069 1452221065 9781452204734 145220473X 9781452236421 1452236429 1322412898 9781322412894

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