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

Publication subTitle :Interpreting Symbolic Consumer Behavior in Popular Culture and Works of Art

Publication series :Approaches to Semiotics AS

Author: Morris B. Holbrook   Elizabeth C. Hirschman  

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton‎

Publication year: 1993

E-ISBN: 9783110854732

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9783110134919

Subject: C913.3 The Lives and Consumption

Language: ENG

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Chapter

Acknowledgments

pp.:  1 – 7

1. Introduction

pp.:  13 – 13

2.1. Overview

pp.:  14 – 15

2.2. Neopositivistic semiotics

pp.:  15 – 16

2.3. Interpretive semiology

pp.:  16 – 20

2.4. Summary

pp.:  20 – 23

3.1. Beginnings

pp.:  24 – 24

3.3. Preview

pp.:  25 – 26

4.2. The critique and defense concerning the appeal to managerial relevance

pp.:  55 – 65

4.1. The critique and defense concerning the scientific status of interpretive semiology

pp.:  55 – 55

5. Preview

pp.:  65 – 72

Chapter II Semiotics and popular culture

pp.:  72 – 73

2. The ideology of consumption

pp.:  73 – 74

1. Introduction

pp.:  73 – 73

2.2 “Dallas” and “Dynasty”

pp.:  74 – 75

2.1. Preview

pp.:  74 – 74

2.3. Sacredness and secularity in motion pictures

pp.:  75 – 97

3. Motion picture mythology

pp.:  97 – 131

3.1. Introduction

pp.:  131 – 132

3.2. What is a myth?

pp.:  132 – 133

3.3. Analyzing myths

pp.:  133 – 134

3.4. Classifying archetypes

pp.:  134 – 134

3.5. The structure of myths

pp.:  134 – 135

3.6. Motion pictures as myths

pp.:  135 – 136

3.7. Discussion

pp.:  136 – 159

Chapter III Romanticism and sentimentality in consumer behavior: A literary approach to the joys and sorrows of consumption

pp.:  159 – 163

1. Introduction

pp.:  163 – 163

2. Romanticism

pp.:  163 – 165

2.3. The quest

pp.:  165 – 167

2.2. The Wordsworthian vision

pp.:  165 – 165

2.1. The romantic ethos

pp.:  165 – 165

2.4. A universal impulse

pp.:  167 – 168

2.5. Preview

pp.:  168 – 169

3. The joys and sorrows of consumption

pp.:  169 – 170

3.2. Aeneas and the tragic Queen Dido: From romanticism to sentimentality

pp.:  170 – 181

3.1. Odysseus comes home

pp.:  170 – 170

3.3. The age of sentiment

pp.:  181 – 190

3.4. From Marlowe to Goethe: Faust gets saved

pp.:  190 – 210

3.5. Bloom as Ulysses: Odysseus returns

pp.:  210 – 223

4. Epilogue

pp.:  223 – 237

Chapter IV Seven routes to facilitating the semiotic interpretation of consumption symbolism and marketing imagery in works of art

pp.:  237 – 241

1. Introduction

pp.:  241 – 241

2. Prospects and problems, dangers and difficulties

pp.:  241 – 242

3. Seven routes to interpretation

pp.:  242 – 247

4. Conclusion

pp.:  247 – 253

Appendices

pp.:  253 – 255

1. Appendix 1: Women of Manhattan

pp.:  255 – 255

2. Appendix 2: Beverly Hills cop

pp.:  255 – 258

3. Appendix 3: Tin men and the marketing concept

pp.:  258 – 266

4. Appendix 4: Gremlins as metaphors for materialism

pp.:  266 – 277

5A. Appendix 5A: Coastal disturbances (coauthored with Stephen Bell and Mark W. Grayson)

pp.:  277 – 289

5B. Appendix 5B: Sacred and secular consumption imagery in A Christmas carol

pp.:  289 – 298

6. Appendix 6: Automotive signs in Two for the road

pp.:  298 – 308

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)

pp.:  308 – 322

References

pp.:  322 – 335

Index

pp.:  335 – 365

LastPages

pp.:  365 – 381

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