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  by bakuvia & 1 users

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Author: Clifford Geertz

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Tags: anthropology culture semiotics ethnomethodology Geertz

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Description: A useful introduction to culture and cultural studies - very readable.

2007-12-21

  by mark

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Type: documentary

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Author: Umberto Eco

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Tags: reading philosophy semiotics novels narrative_theory

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Description: A linked series of presentations on the act of reading that are thought-provoking, insightfulA linked series of presentations on the act of reading that are thought-provoking, insightful and even laugh-out-loud funny. ...

2006-09-03

  by tromm & 5 users

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Authors: Joseph Campbell Bill Moyers

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Tags: religion philosophy semiotics myth

2006-06-02

  by bakuvia

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Author: Ann Shukman

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Tags: culture semiotics Lotman

2006-04-06

  by bakuvia

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Author: David K Berlo

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Tags: culture semiotics communication meaning semiosis

2006-04-06

  by bakuvia & 1 users

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Author: Roland Barthes

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Tags: culture semiotics semiology

2006-04-06

  by bakuvia & 1 users

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Type: documentary

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Author: Jonathan Bignell

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Tags: technology culture semiotics postmodernism

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Description: This is an expanded and revised edition of an investigation of the critical approach in contemporaryThis is an expanded and revised edition of an investigation of the critical approach in contemporary media studies. The main media studied on university courses (advertising, magazines, the press, TV, cinema, "new media" including computer games, the Internet and the World Wide ) are all addressed substantially and in separate detailed chapters. New material in this second edition includes sections on men's style magazines, docusoaps and "reality TV", digital interactive television, and mobile phone text messaging. It begins by explaining the concept of the sign and the ideological roles of media in contemporary culture and then scrutinises advertisements, glossy magazines, daily newspapers, TV programmes, recent films, and interactive media, with each chapter containing close analyses of particular examples. Key strands in critical theory such as ideology and psychanalytic theory are explored and challenges to established semiotic methods posed by audience studies and postmodernism are discussed.
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2006-04-06

  by bakuvia

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Author: Jonathan Culler

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Tags: literary culture semiotics structuralism Barthes

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Description: This acclaimed short study, originally published in 1983, and now thoroughly updated, elucidatesThis acclaimed short study, originally published in 1983, and now thoroughly updated, elucidates the varied theoretical contributions of Roland Barthes (1915-80), the 'incomparable enlivener of the literary mind', whose lifelong fascination was with the way people make their world intelligible. He has a multi-faceted claim to fame: to some he is the structuralist who outlined a 'science of literature', and the most prominent promoter of semiology; and to others, he stands not for science but pleasure, espousing a theory of literature which gives the reader a creative role. This book describes the many projects, which Barthes explored and which helped to change the way we think about a range of cultural phenomena - from literature, fashion, wrestling, and advertising, to notions of the self, of history, and of nature. ...

2006-04-06

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Author: Jonathan Culler

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Tags: semiotics semiology Saussure

2006-04-06

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Author: Alex McHoul

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Tags: culture semiotics meaning semiosis

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Description: In "Semiotic Investigations", Alec McHoul develops a theory of meaning that he callsIn "Semiotic Investigations", Alec McHoul develops a theory of meaning that he calls "effective semiotics" - a theory that investigates "the ways in which signs have meaning by virtue of their actual uses." As McHoul notes, "these uses take place in a number of 'media,' the most important of which is the medium of history - so important, in fact, that it catches up all the other possible media of semiosis, including everyday life and language, fiction, film, talk, art, mathematics, [and] photography." McHoul expounds his theory of effective semiotics - of "meaning-as-use" - in a series of provocative chapters on diverse topics. He begins by examining the relations between semiotics and history and between semiotics and specific communities. He elaborates on the nature of these relations by demonstrating the "effective semiotics" of a particular photograph from the 1880s, episodes from the film Singin' in the Rain and the Batman comics, literary works, children's primers, popular accounts of science, and many other objects, artifacts, and experiences. ...

2006-04-06