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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461900903321

Autore

Holbrook Morris B

Titolo

The semiotics of consumption [[electronic resource] ] : interpreting symbolic consumer behavior in popular culture and works of art / / by Morris B. Holbrook, Elizabeth C. Hirschman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1993

ISBN

3-11-085473-2

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (380 p.)

Collana

Approaches to Semiotics [AS] ; ; 110

Altri autori (Persone)

HirschmanElizabeth Caldwell <1949->

Disciplina

302.2

Soggetti

Consumer behavior

Popular culture

Semiotics

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

Front matter -- Chapter I The role of semiotics in research on consumer esthetics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some background on the study of signs -- 3. The study of signs in consumer esthetics -- 4. Criticisms and defenses of interpretive semiology -- 5. Preview -- Chapter II Semiotics and popular culture -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The ideology of consumption -- 3. Motion picture mythology -- Chapter III Romanticism and sentimentality in consumer behavior: A literary approach to the joys and sorrows of consumption -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Romanticism -- 3. The joys and sorrows of consumption -- 4. Epilogue -- Chapter IV Seven routes to facilitating the semiotic interpretation of consumption symbolism and marketing imagery in works of art -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Prospects and problems, dangers and difficulties -- 3. Seven routes to interpretation -- 4. Conclusion -- Appendices -- 1. Appendix 1: Women of Manhattan -- 2. Appendix 2: Beverly Hills cop -- 3. Appendix 3: Tin men and the marketing concept -- 4. Appendix 4: Gremlins as metaphors for materialism -- 5A. Appendix 5A: Coastal disturbances (coauthored with Stephen Bell and Mark W. Grayson) -- 5B. Appendix 5B: Sacred and secular consumption imagery in A Christmas carol -- 6. Appendix 6: Automotive signs in Two for the road -- 7. Appendix 7: Major and minor uses of symbolic



consumer behavior to develop plot and character in Out of Africa (coauthored with Mark W. Grayson) -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Semiotics of Consumption: Interpreting Symbolic Consumer Behavior in Popular Culture and Works of Art (Approaches to Semiotics)