Consumer Culture And Postmodernism

Author : Mike Featherstone
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803984154

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Consumer Culture and Postmodernism by Mike Featherstone Pdf

Implicit within claims that society itself is in some sense postmodern is an argument about the priority of consumption as a determinant of everyday life. In this view, mass media advertising and market dynamics lead to a constant search for new fashions, new styles, new sensations and experiences. Material goods are consumed as `communicators'; they are valued as signifiers of taste and of lifestyle. This volume examines the viability of this portrait of contemporary society. Mike Featherstone explores the roots of consumer culture, how it is defined and differentiated and the extent to which it represents the arrival of a `postmodern' world. He examines the theories of consumption and postmodernism among contemporary social theorists such

Author : Mike Featherstone
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849202329

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Consumer Culture and Postmodernism by Mike Featherstone Pdf

The first edition of this contemporary classic can claim to have put ′consumer culture′ on the map, certainly in relation to postmodernism. This expanded new edition includes: a fully revised preface that explores the developments in consumer culture since the first edition a major new chapter on ′Modernity and the Cultural Question′ an update on postmodernism and the development of contemporary theory after postmodernism an account of multiple and alternative modernities the challenges of consumer culture in Japan and China. The result is a book that shakes the boundaries of debate, from one of the foremost writers on culture and postmodernism of the present day.

Author : Mike Featherstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:969598110

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Author : Mike Featherstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Consumers
ISBN : OCLC:1182625944

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Consumer Culture and Postmodernism by Mike Featherstone Pdf

Author : Don Slater
Publisher : Polity
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745603041

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Consumer Culture and Modernity by Don Slater Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the issues, concepts and theories through which people have tried to understand consumer culture throughout the modern period, and puts the current state of thinking into a broader context. Thematically organized, the book shows how the central aspects of consumer culture - such as needs, choice, identity, status, alienation, objects, culture - have been debated within modern theories, from those of earlier thinkers such as Marx and Simmel to contemporary forms of post-structuralism and postmodernism. This approach introduces consumer culture as a subject which - far from being of narrow or recent interest - is intimately tied to the central issues of modern times and modern social thought. With its reviews of major theorists set within a full account of the development of the subject, this book should be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students in the many disciplines which now study consumer culture, including communications and cultural studies, anthropology and history.

Author : E. Ann Kaplan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317227670

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Rocking Around the Clock by E. Ann Kaplan Pdf

The first non-stop rock video channel was launched in the US in 1981. As a unique popular culture form, MTV warrants attention, and in this, the first study of the medium, originally published in 1987, Ann Kaplan examines the cultural context of MTV and its relationship to the history of rock music. The first part of the book focuses on MTV as a commercial institution, on the contexts of production and exhibition of videos, on their similarity to ads, and on the different perspectives of directors and viewers. Does the adoption of adolescent styles and iconography signal an open-minded acceptance of youth’s subversive stances; or does it rather suggest a cynicism by which profit has become the only value? In the second part of the book, Kaplan turns to the rock videos themselves, and from the mass of material that flows through MTV she identifies five distinct types of video: the ‘romantic’, the ‘socially conscious’, the ‘nihilistic’, the ‘classical’, and the ‘postmodern’. There are detailed analyses of certain videos; and Kaplan focuses particularly on gender issues in videos by both male and female stars. The final chapter explores the wider implications of MTV. What does the channel tell us about the state of youth culture at the time?

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1992-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822310902

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Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson Pdf

Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.

Author : Jonathan Bignell
Publisher : Aakar Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8189833162

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Postmodern Media Culture by Jonathan Bignell Pdf

The book deals with film, television, information technology, consumer products and popular literature, and assesses challenges to conceptions of the postmodern based on gender, race and religion.

Author : Mike Featherstone
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848609167

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Undoing Culture by Mike Featherstone Pdf

Written with the clarity and insight that readers have come to expect of Mike Featherstone Undoing Culture is a notable contribution to our understanding of modernism and postmodernism. It explores the formation and deformation of the cultural sphere and the effects on culture of globalization. Against many orthodox postmodernist accounts,the author argues that it is wrong to regard our present state of fragmentation and dislocation as an epochal break. Existing interdependencies and power balances are not so easily broken down. Nonetheless some important cultural changes have occurred since World War II. In particular, the book examines some of the processes which have uncoupled culture from the social; the erosion of the ideal of the heroic life in the face of the onslaught from consumerism and the deformation of culture; and the rise of new forms of identity development. It explains why culture has gained a more significant role in everyday life and also why it has come to preoccupy the Academy in recent years. Mike Featherstone looks at the effects of the multiplication of cultural goods and images on our ability to read culture and develop fixed meanings and relationships. He highlights the importance of the global in attempting to cope with the objective difficulties of cultural overproduction. The book concludes that the rise of non-Western nation-states with different cultural frames produces different reactions of modernity, making it more appropriate to refer to global modernities.

Author : Mark Gottdiener
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0847695700

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New Forms of Consumption by Mark Gottdiener Pdf

Consumption as a field of cultural studies overlaps with theories of postmodernism, the social construction of self, commodification in late capitalism, and the role of mass media in daily life. New forms of consumption such as those facilitated by cyberspace, themed environments, the commodification of sex, and the increasing role of leisure in society all play new and interesting roles in daily life that combine consumerism with the most contemporary social forms. This collection of essays examines the recent ways in which consumerism has been approached by cultural studies with special emphasis given to these and other newly emerging topics. The book is divided into three parts. The first part provides a theoretical overview of consumption studies dealing with classical and more contemporary approaches in light of the debate between advocates and critics of postmodernism. In this section there are papers on McDonaldization, tourism and cultural studies, and the Theory of Shopping. The second part emphasizes empirical studies of the commodification process. Papers address the transformation of women's bodies and the mass commodification of milk, the creation of the toddler as a subject and the commodification of childhood, the commodification of sports, and the commodification of rock music. The third section of the book explores new forms of consumption on a more detailed and concentrated level. Papers in this section include the rise of sex tourism as a global industry, the commodification of the sacred, and the emergence of new consumer spaces in the city. An introduction by the editor delineates the advantages of his approach to new forms of consumption based squarely in the emerging issues of cultural studies, debates transcending postmodernism, and the society of the spectacle.

Author : Martin P. Davidson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136109720

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The Consumerist Manifesto by Martin P. Davidson Pdf

Advertising is no longer on the defensive. It has survived the snobbery of the 50s, the conspiracy theories of the 60s and the semiology of the 70s to be embraced and apotheosised by the 80s. The Consumerist Manifesto is the first book to examine the advertising process from within the agency itself, and from the wider perspective of advertising's dual relationship as both consumer and object, with contemporary cultural theory. Martin Davidson follows the creation of successful campaigns and explores how advertising has succeeded in setting the tone for even larger aspects of our material and personal lives. With the impact of postmodernism and popular culture, and the subsequent collapse of the old anti-advertising critique, the books reveals how advertising came to be embraced as the idiom of the enterprise culture, and how it became central to the decades assault on traditional notions of political and cultural value. Martin Davidson explores the wider implications of advertising's dominance for cultural theory, art, anthropology and language. Finally, Martin Davidson asks how this new critique will have to develop if the industry's new credibility is to be maintained.

Author : Jean Baudrillard
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472065211

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Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard Pdf

Develops a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure. This book represents an effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.

Author : Grisna Anggadwita,Erni Martini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000070644

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Digital Economy for Customer Benefit and Business Fairness by Grisna Anggadwita,Erni Martini Pdf

The international conference "Sustainable Collaboration in Business, Technology, Information and Innovation (SCBTII) 2019" has brought together academics, professionals, entrepreneurs, researchers, learners, and other related groups from around the world who have a special interest in theories and practices in the development of the field of digital economy for global competitiveness. Considering that, at present, technology and industry 4.0 are still a leading trend and offer great opportunities for global businesses, the rise of industry 4.0 makes competition in the business world more attractive, yet fierce. Opportunities and challenges for business development in industry 4.0 are becoming firm and it also provides businesses the possibility to compete globally. Companies that desire to enter this global competition should pay attention to customer benefits and business fairness in order to achieve sustainability in this digital economy. This proceedings volume contains selected papers from this conference and presents opportunities to communicate and exchange new ideas and experiences. Moreover, the conference provided opportunities, both for the presenters and the participants, to establish research relations, and find global partners for future collaboration.

Author : Russell A. Potter
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0791426254

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Spectacular Vernaculars by Russell A. Potter Pdf

Viewing hip-hop as the postmodern successor to African American culture's Jazz modernism, this book examines hip-hop music's role in the history of the African-American experience.

Author : Steven Miles
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761952152

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Consumerism by Steven Miles Pdf

This book provides an introduction to the historical and theoretical foundations of consumerism. It then moves on to examine the experience of consumption in the areas of space and place, technology, fashion, `popular' music and sport. Throughout, the author brings a critical perspective to bear upon the subject, thus providing a reliable and stimulating guide to a complex and many-sided field.