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  • Cultural Politics in Contemporary America

    Edición de Ian Angus, Sut Jhally ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1989, Cultural Politics in Contemporary America is a radical attempt to lay out the complex ways in which the American media and American culture is powerfully interlocked. At the end of the 20th century, the media exerted an overwhelming influence on the formation of social identity through the production and consumption of images. The Hollywood Presidency of Ronald Reagan was ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • The Codes of Advertising

    Fetishism and the Political Economy of Meaning in the Consumer Society

    de Sut Jhally ...
    This book examines the commercial speech of advertising as a cultural phenomenon whose social significance far exceeds its economic influence. Jhally argues that by selling viewing time to advertisers, television converts audiences into laborers who "work" for the media in the same way that workers do in a factory. By watching commercial messages on TV, viewers actively create symbolic meaning, ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Enlightened Racism

    The Cosby Show, Audiences, And The Myth Of The American Dream

    de Sut Jhally ...
    The Cosby Show needs little introduction to most people familiar with American popular culture. It is a show with immense and universal appeal. Even so, most debates about the significance of the program have failed to take into account one of the more important elements of its success—its viewers. Through a major study of the audiences of The Cosby Show, the authors treat two issues of great ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Social Communication in Advertising

    Consumption in the Mediated Marketplace

    Newly updated for the digital era, this classic textbook provides a comprehensive historical study of advertising and its function within contemporary society by tracing advertising's influence throughout different media and cultural periods, from early magazines through to social media. With several new chapters on the rise of the Internet, mobile, and social media, this fourth edition offers new ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

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    Edición de Laurie Ouellette, Jonathan Gray ...
    Series Libro 5 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studiesKeywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media studies by tracing, defining, and problematizing its established and emergent terminology. The book historicizes thinking about media and society, ... Leer más

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  • Key Concepts in Creative Industries

    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    This guide to the emerging language of creative industries field is a valuable resource for researchers and students alike. Concise, extensively referenced, and accessible, this this is an exceptionally useful reference work.- Gauti Sigthorsson***, Greenwich University***"There could be no better guides to the conceptual map of the creative industries than John Hartley and his colleagues, pioneers ... Leer más

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  • Brands

    Meaning and Value in Media Culture

    Drawing on rich empirical material, this revealing book builds up a critical theory, arguing that brands have become an important tool for transforming everyday life into economic value.When branding lifestyles or value complexes onto their products, companies assume that consumers desire products for their ability to give meaning to their lives. Yet, brands also have a key function within ... Leer más

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  • The Utopia of Rules

    On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

    de David Graeber ...
    From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our livesWhere does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really a cipher for state violence?To answer these questions, the anthropologist David Graeber—one of ... Leer más

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  • Organization Theory

    Series series SAGE Course Companions series
    The SAGE Course Companion on Organization Theory is an accessible introduction to a challenging subject area. This book helps readers to extend their understanding of theories and make the connection between them and organizational practice. It will enhance their thinking skills in line with course requirements and provides support on how to revise for exams and prepare for and write assessed ... Leer más

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  • The Sociological Imagination

    C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the social, personal, ... Leer más

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  • The Aesthetic Economy of Fashion

    Markets and Value in Clothing and Modelling

    Series series Dress, Body, Culture
    Fashion is bound up with promoting the 'new', concerned with constantly changing aesthetics. The favoured styles or looks of a season arise out of the work of a vast range of different actors who collectively produce, select, distribute and promote the new ideals, before moving on to next season. How, then, are fashionable commodities stabilized long enough for them to be selected, distributed and ... Leer más

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  • The Digital Divide

    Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking

    This definitive work on the perils and promise of the social- media revolution collects writings by today's best thinkers and cultural commentators, with an all-new introduction by Bauerlein.Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and other social media raise some of the most divisive cultural questions of our time. Some see the technological breakthroughs we live with as hopeful ... Leer más

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