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Autore |
Adler Anthony Curtis |
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Celebricities : media culture and the phenomenology of gadget commodity life / / Anthony Curtis Adler |
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New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Collana |
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Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Materialism - United States |
Mass media and culture - United States |
Popular culture - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Exordium; Introduction; PART I; 1 The phenomenology of television; 2 The life not ours to live; 3 The celebrity and the nobody; 4 Being(s); 5 The life of things; 6 Ideology and truth; 7 The truth of the commodity; 8 Value, publicity, politics; 9 Reproduction; 10 The gadget; 11 To the things themselves; PART II; 12 Methods; Concepts of criticism; Language is the . . . of being; Satanic laughter; Techniques of writing; Vita contemplativa; The raccoon trap; 13 Celebrity; Epic form; Celebrity and singularity |
Innocence Of celebricity, or: toward a phenomenology of MadonnaThe strange celebrity; The Uncandy; Candy Candy; What percentage of the American population are celebrities?; Specters of Spector; Excrement and enterprise; The dissociating pleasure of things; Abstract pleasures; Experiences; The theory of suffering; Advertising; The next top model; Television and celebrity; Politics and humor; The visionary; Things; Listening to Radiohead for the first time, 17 years too late; 14 Television/Gadget; It's bicycle repairman . . .; Dialectica gizmotica; The Trojan horse; The personal computer |
Terror-visionThe Joker; Gigi; Nip/Tuck; The Following; The Ring; House; Disjecta membra Dexteri; Boogie Nights; Man or Muppet; The |
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