Consuming Visions

Author : Daniel Scroop
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781443806701

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The United States is the quintessential consumer society. This collection of essays brings together a new set of American and European voices from across the disciplinary spectrum of the humanities and social sciences to explore in innovative and challenging ways the “consuming visions” that have informed American political, social, and cultural life in the twentieth century. Ranging in subject matter from the anti-chain store movement that swept across small-town America in the 1920s and 1930s to the “bling” aesthetic in contemporary African American film, these essays explore how questions of consumption have been imagined, understood, and contested. While the collection coheres around the contributors’ common concern with how consumption has been—and is—political, its distinctiveness lies in the broad sweep of its disciplinary range. Furthermore, Consuming Visions illuminates a wide range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the politics of consumption, with contributions from legal, social and political historians, and scholars from media and communications studies. Providing fresh perspectives on one the most dynamic sub-fields in American Studies, Consuming Visions will appeal to students and academics with an interest in consumerism and consumption in the twentieth-century United States.

Author : Suzanne K. Kaufman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501727351

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Plastic Madonnas, packaged holy tours, and biblical theme parks can arouse discomfort, laughter, and even revulsion in religious believers and nonbelievers alike. Scholars, too, often see the intermingling of religion and commerce as a corruption of true spirituality. Suzanne K. Kaufman challenges these assumptions in her examination of the Lourdes pilgrimage in late nineteenth-century France.Consuming Visions offers new ways to interpret material forms of worship, female piety, and modern commercial culture. Kaufman argues that the melding of traditional pilgrimage activities with a newly developing mass culture produced fresh expressions of popular faith. For the devout women of humble origins who flocked to the shrine, this intensely exciting commercialized worship offered unprecedented opportunities to connect with the sacred and express their faith in God.New devotional activities at Lourdes transformed the act of pilgrimage: the train became a moving chapel, and popular entertainments such as wax museums offered vivid recreations of visionary events. Using the press and the strategies of a new advertising industry to bring a mass audience to Lourdes, Church authorities remade centuries-old practices of miraculous healing into a modern public spectacle. These innovations made Lourdes one of the most visited holy sites in Catholic Europe.Yet mass pilgrimage also created problems. The development of Lourdes, while making religious practice more democratically accessible, touched off fierce conflicts over the rituals and entertainments provided by the shrine. These conflicts between believers and secularists played out in press scandals across the European continent. By taking the shrine seriously as a site of mass culture, Kaufman not only breaks down the opposition between sacred and profane but also deepens our understanding of commercialized religion as a fundamental feature of modernity itself.

Author : Maite Conde
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813932149

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Consuming Visions by Maite Conde Pdf

Consuming Visions explores the relationship between cinema and writing in early twentieth-century Brazil, focusing on how the new and foreign medium of film was consumed by a literary society in the throes of modernization. Maite Conde places this relationship in the specific context of turn-of-the-century Rio de Janeiro, which underwent a radical transformation to a modern global city, becoming a concrete symbol of the country's broader processes of change and modernization. Analyzing an array of literary texts, from journalistic essays and popular women's novels to anarchist treatises and vaudeville plays, the author shows how the writers' encounters with the cinema were consistent with the significant changes taking place in the city. The arrival and initial development of the cinema in Brazil were part of the new urban landscape in which early Brazilian movies not only articulated the processes of the city's modernization but also enabled new urban spectators--women, immigrants, a new working class, and a recently liberated slave population--to see, believe in, and participate in its future. In the process, these early movies challenged the power of the written word and of Brazilian writers, threatening the hegemonic function of writing that had traditionally forged the contours of the nation's cultural life. An emerging market of consumers of the new cultural phenomena--popular theater, the department store, the factory, illustrated magazines--reflected changes that not only modernized literary production but also altered the very life and everyday urban experiences of the population. Consuming Visions is an ambitious and engaging examination of the ways in which mass culture can become an agent of intellectual and aesthetic transformation.

Author : Tine Van Osselaer,Andrea Graus,Leonardo Rossi,Kristof Smeyers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004439351

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The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, c. 1800–1950 by Tine Van Osselaer,Andrea Graus,Leonardo Rossi,Kristof Smeyers Pdf

In the nineteenth century a new type of mystic emerged in Catholic Europe. While cases of stigmatisation had been reported since the thirteenth century, this era witnessed the development of the ‘stigmatic’: young women who attracted widespread interest thanks to the appearance of physical stigmata. To understand the popularity of these stigmatics we need to regard them as the ‘saints’ and religious ‘celebrities’ of their time. With their ‘miraculous’ bodies, they fit contemporary popular ideas (if not necessarily those of the Church) of what sanctity was. As knowledge about them spread via modern media and their fame became marketable, they developed into religious ‘celebrities’.

Author : Carolyn White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350226708

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A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry by Carolyn White Pdf

A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry covers the period 1760 to 1900, a time of dramatic change in the material world as objects shifted from the handmade to the machine made. The revolution in making, and in consuming the things which were made, impacted on lives at every scale –from body to home to workplace to city to nation. Beyond the explosion in technology, scientific knowledge, manufacturing, trade, and museums, changes in class structure, politics, ideology, and morality all acted to transform the world of objects. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds. Carolyn White is Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA. Volume 5 in the Cultural History of Objects set. General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte

Author : Maite Conde
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813932132

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Consuming Visions by Maite Conde Pdf

Consuming Visions explores the relationship between cinema and writing in early twentieth-century Brazil, focusing on how the new and foreign medium of film was consumed by a literary society in the throes of modernization. Maite Conde places this relationship in the specific context of turn-of-the-century Rio de Janeiro, which underwent a radical transformation to a modern global city, becoming a concrete symbol of the country's broader processes of change and modernization. Analyzing an array of literary texts, from journalistic essays and popular women's novels to anarchist treatises and vaudeville plays, the author shows how the writers' encounters with the cinema were consistent with the significant changes taking place in the city. The arrival and initial development of the cinema in Brazil were part of the new urban landscape in which early Brazilian movies not only articulated the processes of the city's modernization but also enabled new urban spectators--women, immigrants, a new working class, and a recently liberated slave population--to see, believe in, and participate in its future. In the process, these early movies challenged the power of the written word and of Brazilian writers, threatening the hegemonic function of writing that had traditionally forged the contours of the nation's cultural life. An emerging market of consumers of the new cultural phenomena--popular theater, the department store, the factory, illustrated magazines--reflected changes that not only modernized literary production but also altered the very life and everyday urban experiences of the population. Consuming Visions is an ambitious and engaging examination of the ways in which mass culture can become an agent of intellectual and aesthetic transformation.

Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Advertising, Point-of-sale
ISBN : 0393027090

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Consuming Visions by Simon J. Bronner Pdf

How did the consumer system develop to pervade the whole of American culture? The rise of American mass culture helped to spread consumerism, turning the country into a nation of consumers.

Author : Erika Marie Bsumek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131611035

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Indian-made by Erika Marie Bsumek Pdf

"In works of silver and wool, the Navajos have established a unique brand of American craft. And when their artisans were integrated into the American economy during the late nineteenth century, they became part of a complex cultural and economic framework in which their handmade crafts conveyed meanings beyond simple adornment." "Bsumek unravels the layers of meaning that surround the branding of "Indian-made." When Navajo artisans produced their goods, collaborating traders, tourist industry personnel, and even ethnologists created a vision of Navajo culture that had little to do with Navajos themselves. And as Anglos consumed Navajo crafts, they also consumed the romantic notion of Navajos as "primitives" perpetuated by the marketplace. These processes of production and consumption reinforced each other, creating a symbiotic relationship and influencing both mutual Anglo-Navajo perceptions and the ways in which Navajos participated in the modern marketplace." "Ultimately, Bsumek shows that the sale of Indian-made goods cannot be explained solely through supply and demand. It must also reckon with the multiple images and narratives that grew up around the goods themselves, integrating consumer culture, tourism, and history to open new perspectives on our understanding of American Indian material culture."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Barbara Berglund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X030262506

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Making San Francisco American by Barbara Berglund Pdf

Focuses on the 19th-century transformation in San Francisco--from Gold Rush to earthquake--to show how the city's diverse residents created a modern American city through everyday "cultural frontiers," such as restaurants, hotels, and annual fairs and expositions, among others.

Author : Keith Walden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015040561303

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Becoming Modern in Toronto by Keith Walden Pdf

A history of the Toronto Industrial Exhibition (1879-1903) and an exploration of how the fair helped shape understandings of emerging urban culture in a society being altered profoundly by industrial production, technological developments, and new ideas.

Author : Robert Michalski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009727327

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Consuming Cultures by Robert Michalski Pdf

Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0393960021

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Consuming Visions by Simon J. Bronner Pdf

This volume examines the consumer way of life as it unfolded in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Author : Jocelyn Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : MINN:31951P007060860

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Discourses of Acculturation by Jocelyn Cohen Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : City planning
ISBN : UCLA:L0086831450

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Environment & Planning by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nancy Lusignan Schultz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015043823569

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Fear Itself by Nancy Lusignan Schultz Pdf

This collection contains twenty-seven new essays on American paranoia drawn from a range of disciplines, including American studies, film studies, history, literature, religious studies, and sociology. It's arranged by topic and largely in chronological order, explore manifestations of fear throughout the history of the United States. Approaching the topic from a variety of perspectives and methodologies, contributors to the collection explore theoretical constructions of fear, religious intolerance in early American culture, racial discrimination, literary expressions of paranoia, and Cold War anxieties, as well as phobias of the modern age and about the future. Together, these essays cover topics from nearly every period of U.S. history, offering a remarkable picture of the nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror that Roosevelt discerned as such a paralyzing threat on the eve of the Second World War, and which continues to haunt American culture even as we shape our perceptions of the future.