1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455836703321

Autore

Gunster Shane

Titolo

Capitalizing on culture : critical theory for cultural studies / / Shane Gunster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

1-282-02304-7

9786612023040

1-4426-7272-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 p.)

Collana

Cultural Spaces

Disciplina

306.4

Soggetti

Popular culture - Economic aspects

Popular culture - Study and teaching

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Culture as Commodity -- 1. Mass Culture and the Commodity Form: Revisiting the Culture Industry Thesis -- 2. Capitalism, Mimesis, Experience: Legacies of the Commodity Fetish -- 3. Dreams of Redemption? Adorno, Benjamin, and the Dialectics of Culture -- 4. From Mass to Popular Culture: From Frankfurt to Birmingham -- 5. Articulation and the Commodity Form: Rethinking Contemporary Cultural Studies -- Concluding Thoughts -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Building on the work of Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, Capitalizing on Culture presents an innovative, accessible, and timely exploration of critical theory in a cultural landscape dominated by capital. Despite the increasing prevalence of commodification as a dominant factor in the production, promotion, and consumption of most forms of mass culture, many in the cultural studies field have failed to engage systematically either with culture as commodity or with critical theory. Shane Gunster corrects that oversight, providing attentive readings of Adorno and Benjamin's work in order to generate



a complex, non-reductive theory of human experience that attends to the opportunities and dangers arising from the confluence of culture and economics.Gunster juxtaposes Benjamin's thoughts on memory, experience, and capitalism with Adorno's critique of mass culture and modern aesthetics to illuminate the key position that the commodity form plays in each thinker's work and to invigorate the dialectical complexity their writings acquire when considered together. This blending of perspectives is subsequently used to ground a theoretical interrogation of the comparative failure of cultural studies to engage substantively with the effect of commodification upon cultural practices. As a result, Capitalizing on Culture offers a fresh examination of critical theory that will be valuable to scholars studying the intersection of culture and capitalism.

2.

Record Nr.

UNICASRML0234667

Autore

BANDETTINI, Antonio

Titolo

Finanza aziendale : Le fonti / Antonio Bandettini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Padova, : Cedam, 1987

Descrizione fisica

290 p. ; 24 cm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia