Semiotics of Popular Culture

Semiotics of Popular Culture
Author: Rossolatos, George
Publisher: kassel university press GmbH
Total Pages: 7
Release: 2015
Genre: Popular culture
ISBN: 3862195562

Cultural studies constitutes one of the most multi-perspectival research fields. Amidst a polyvocal theoretical landscape that spans different disciplines semiotics is of foundational value. In an attempt to effectively address the conceptual richness of the semiotic discipline, a wide roster of perspectives is evoked in this book against the background of a diverse set of cultural phenomena, including structuralist and post-structuralist semiotics, semiotically informed psychoanalysis, cultural semiotics, film semiotics, sociosemiotics, but also, to a lesser extent, music semiotics and more niche, but certainly promising perspectives, such as postmodern semiotics, ethnosemiotics, phenomenological semiotics and rhetorical semiotics. The recruitment of semiotic frameworks and concepts is enacted against the background of advances in cultural studies (thus reinstating the dialogue with a discipline that took form by drawing on semiotics in the first place) and the various research streams that have become consolidated within the wider cultural studies territory, such as memory studies, celebrity studies, death studies, cultural geography, visual studies. At the same time, the offered readings engage dialogically with Consumer Culture Theory.

Media Literacy and Semiotics

Media Literacy and Semiotics
Author: E. Gaines
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2010-12-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230115519

Media Literacy and Semiotics provides helpful tools to help readers think critically about the meaning of the media images they are exposed to on a daily basis. In this comprehensive book, a basic model of semiotic logic is applied to a variety of media studies to promote critical thinking and media literacy. Elliot Gaines systematically analyzes the hidden meanings in mass-mediated products and texts, and shows how basic meaning structures underlie everything from The Daily Show to television documentaries to infotainment.

Cultural Semiotics

Cultural Semiotics
Author: Anna Maria Lorusso
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2015-10-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137546999

Through a reevaluation of the work of some of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, this book details how semiotics, social sense, and social communication can function together to analyze how culture works in the contemporary era.

Umberto Eco and the Open Text

Umberto Eco and the Open Text
Author: Peter Bondanella
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2005-10-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521020879

The first comprehensive study in English of Umberto Eco's theories and fictions.

The Semiotics of Consumption

The Semiotics of Consumption
Author: Morris B. Holbrook
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2012-01-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110854732

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

The History of the Kiss!

The History of the Kiss!
Author: M. Danesi
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2013-12-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137376856

How and when did the kiss become a vital sign of romance and love? In this wide-ranging book, pop culture expert Marcel Danesi takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the history of the kiss, from poetry and painting to movies and popular songs, and argues that its romantic incarnation signaled the birth of popular culture.

Understanding Media Semiotics

Understanding Media Semiotics
Author: Marcel Danesi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2017-03-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 135003990X

Media semiotics is a valuable method of focusing on the hidden meanings within media texts. This book offers students an in-depth guide to help them investigate and understand the media using semiotic theory. It assumes little previous knowledge of the field, avoiding jargon and explaining the issues step by step. The two basic features of the methods used are the historical study of media and their genre and the analysis of the meaning structures that such genres encode. Semiotic analysis is sometimes seen as complicated and difficult to understand; Marcel Danesi shows that on the contrary it can be readily understood and can greatly enrich students' understanding of media texts, from print media right through to the internet.

Popular Culture

Popular Culture
Author: Marcel Danesi
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2012
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1442217839

Popular Culture: Introductory Perspectives seeks to define pop culture by exploring the ways that it fulfills our human desire for meaning.The second edition investigates current contexts for popular culture, including the rise of the digital global village through new technology and offers up-to-date examples that connect with today's students."

Signs of Aliens

Signs of Aliens
Author: Daniel Bernardi
Publisher: Pearson Learning Solutions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780558258399

The Texture of Culture

The Texture of Culture
Author: A. Semenenko
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-08-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781137007148

In this introduction to the semiotic theory of one of the most innovative theorists of the twentieth century, the Russian literary scholar and semiotician Yuri Lotman, offers a new look at Lotman's profound legacy by conceptualizing his ideas in modern context and presenting them as a useful tool of cultural analysis.