Autore	Singer Milton B.
Edizione	[Reprint 2012]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berlin : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 1991
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (393 p.)
Disciplina	306/.01
Collana	Approaches to semiotics
Soggetto topico	Culture - Semiotic models Ethnology - Philosophy Symbolism Cities and towns - United States Cities and towns - India
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	3-11-085775-8
Classificazione	CC 6600
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On remembering some founding fathers and mothers -- Search for a great tradition in cultural performances -- Yankee City in renaissance -- A semiotic of the city: Purusha and Corbusier's modulor as architectural symbols -- The symbolic and historic structure of an American identity -- The semiotics of the id -- A conversation of cultures: The United States and Southern Asia -- A neglected source of Lévi-Strauss' structuralism: Radcliffe-Brown, Russell, and Whitehead -- Peirce, Malinowski and the emergence of semiotic anthropology -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Backmatter
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910464781303321

Autore	Holbrook Morris B
Edizione	[Reprint 2011]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1993
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (380 p.)
Disciplina	302.2
Altri autori (Persone)	HirschmanElizabeth Caldwell <1949->
Collana	Approaches to Semiotics [AS]
Soggetto topico	Consumer behavior Popular culture Semiotics
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	3-11-085473-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
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
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910461900903321

Edizione	[Reprint 2016]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berlin ; ; New York, New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 1997
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (ix, 896 p. ) : ill. ;
Disciplina	302.23/01/4
Collana	Approaches to Semiotics
Soggetto topico	Mass media - Semiotics
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	3-11-080361-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Nöth, Winfried -- Part I: Semiotic foundations of the media -- Media and self-reference: The forgotten initial state / Marcus, Solomon -- Media between Balnibarbi and Plato's Cave / Deledalle, Gérard -- The multimediation of the lifeworld / Sonesson, Göran -- The sign as medium, the medium relation as the foundation of the sign / Walther, Elisabeth -- Semiosis of the mass media: Modeling a complex process / Krampen, Martin -- The media contract / Chauvel, Lucrecia Escudero -- Part II: Pictorial and graphic semiotics -- Semiotics and ethics: The image of semiotics and semiotics of the image / Deledalle-Rhodes, Janice -- The prephotographic, the photographic, and the postphotographic image / Braga, Lucia Santaella -- Can pictures lie? / Nöth, Winfried -- On the semiotics of the image and the computer image / Caneparo, Luca / Caprettini, Gian Paolo -- Pictorial metaphor in commercial advertising / Rozik, Eli -- Representation and legitimacy: A semiotic approach to the logo / Heilbrunn, Benoît -- Indexical/iconic tensions: The semiotics of the postage stamp / Scott, David -- Combining the information of maps and other media while hiking / Schmauks, Dagmar -- Part III: Film, acting, and intermediality in the movies -- The delay of the cinema age / Buckland, Warren -- The dialectic of the sign or journeys to Cape Fear / Hayes, Michael -- Natural born killers: Rhythms of the filmic image and styles of violence / Cohen, Alain J.-J. -- "How did you find us?" - "We read the script!": A special case of self-reference in the movies / Withalm, Gloria -- Words created in their own image / Behar, Lisa Block de -- Discursive stupidity: Abduction and comic in "Monty Python's Flying Circus"; From Peirce to Freud / Wirth, Uwe -- The semiotics of eating and orality in the movies / Grimm, Petra -- Star images: Questions for semiotic analysis / Lowry, Stephen -- Film acting and gender: Method acting and the male tantrum / McDonald, Paul -- On some aspects of intermedial film transfer / Gwóźdź, Andrzej -- Media shift and intertextual reference / Krah, Hans -- Death and rebirth of the author: On a specific case of an intermedial chiasmus between literature and film / Mecke, Jochen -- Part IV: Television, video, and radio -- Television: The semiotic phenomenology of communication and the image / Lanigan, Richard L. -- Where is the subject in the macromedia? The question of zapping / Costantini, Michel -- The surrogate audience: Ostension of spectator response in televised shows / Sutton, Philip C. -- Liquid images: A semiotic analysis of on-air promotion and TV design of TV stations / Müller, Michael / Springer, Bernhard -- Foreshadowing virtual reality in narrative and film / Gandelman, Claude -- TV is dead, video is born: Dialogue on new intermedia communication / Bonfantini, Massimo A. / Petrilli, Susan / Ponzio, Augusto -- Audience participation games: Consideration for parties other than the actual participant / Schlickau, Stephan -- Part V: Computers, electronic networks, hypertext, and cyberspace -- Objects and the world metaphor: A semiotic engineering approach / Jorna, René J. / Wezel, Wout van -- Semiotics of computer media in architecture / Maggiora, Giuliano / Brusasco, Pio Luigi / Caneparo, Luca -- "Electronic communities" as social worlds: Toward a sociosemiotic analysis of computer mediated interpersonal communication / Höflich, Joachim R. -- The cold warmth of communication in computer networks / Janney, Richard W. -- Semiosis at computer media / Raudaskoski, Pirkko -- Hypertextuality and multimedia literature / Ledgerwood, Mikle D. -- Linguistic orientation in computational space / Ipsen, Guido -- Principles of spatialization in text and hypertext / Wenz, Karin -- Part VI: Time, memory, media, and the semiotics of the museum -- The medium is the memory: Ars memoriae in its age of technical reproducibility / Wallmannsberger, Josef -- The role of memory in the contemporary acceleration of cultural proliferation / Agra, Lucio / Nunes, Monica -- Listening to the virtual past / Valente, Heloisa de Araujo Duarte -- The museum as a political media: A semiological assault / Esslinger, Sandra Lotte -- The museum as semiotic frame: "Degenerate art" in the thirties and the nineties / Horst, Frauke von der -- Western heritage and its autres: Cowboys and Indians, facts, and fictions / Wilson, Diana Drake -- Part VII: Aesthetic aspects of the media -- Innovation, gainful learning, and habits in the aesthetics of media / Kloepfer, Rolf -- Deep structure and design configurations in paintings / Guerri, Claudio Federico -- Architecture as a mass medium? / Dreyer, Claus -- Poems on the bus: Some practical aspects of the reception of poetry in the mass media / Christidis, Tania Leonte -- The form of the media: The intermediality of visual poetry / Block, Friedrich W. -- Poetic aspects of a multimedia text / Cañizal, Eduardo Peñuela -- Graphic notation and musical graphics: The nonnotational sign systems in new music and its multimedial, intermedial, extended-medial, and mixed-medial character / Gligo, Nikša -- Part VIII: Sociosemiotics and today's myths in the media -- Divination as a mass media event / Tobin, Yishai -- Media, death, and democracy / Imbert, Patrick -- Myth of the Occident and its manifestations in the Chinese media / Ding, Ersu -- Media coverage of the unreasonable in the land of hyperreason / Andacht, Fernando -- The media and logic of concrete action in the "housekeeping" press / Klapisch, Coline -- The desire of "crises": An Occidental way of existing / Spörri, Hansruedi -- Invitation to travel: The window-shop relationship in the communication of fashion / Ceriani, Giulia -- Nonverbal signs in an intercultural business negotiation / Niemeier, Susanne -- Part IX: Appendix -- Index of names -- Index of subjects
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910464330803321

Autore	Worcester Thomas
Edizione	[Reprint 2011]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1997
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (316 p.)
Disciplina	251/.0092
Collana	Religion and society
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	3-11-080972-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Acknowledgements and dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Camus and context -- Chapter 2. Oral discourse and printed text -- Chapter 3. Culture and conversion -- Chapter 4. Feasting and fasting -- Chapter 5. Gender and the saints -- Chapter 6. Loyola and Borromeo -- Chapter 7. Politics and piety -- Chapter 8. Hearts and minds -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910462734303321