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Cultural criticism : a primer of key concepts / Arthur Asa Berger
Bib ID 497878
Format BookBook
Author
Berger, Arthur Asa, 1933-
 
Description Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1995 
xii, 194 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. 
ISBN 0803957343 (pb)  0803957335 (cl)  0803957335  0803957343 (pbk.) 
Series

Foundations of popular culture ; vol. 4

Full 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.
 
Partial 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
  • 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.
 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-178) and index.

Subjects Culture.  |  Criticism.  |  Communism and culture.  |  Semiotics - Social aspects.  |  Psychoanalysis and culture.  |  Sociology - Methodology.

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