%0 Book
%D 1995
%T Postmodern semiotics : material culture and the forms of postmodern life
%A Gottdiener, Mark
%C Oxford, UK ; Cambridge
%I Blackwell
%K Culture Semiotic models.
%K Material culture.
%K Postmodernism.
%L rstk GN406mainMAIN GN406
%P viii, 262
%Z M. Gottdiener.ill. ; 23 cm.Pt. I. Theoretical Considerations. 1. Semiotics, Socio-Semiotics and Postmodernism: From Idealist to Materialist Theories of the Sign. 2. The System of Objects and the Commodification of Everyday Life: The Early Work of Baudrillard. 3. The Substance of the Expression: The Role of Material Culture in Symbolic Interaction -- Pt. II. The Substance of the Expression: Case Studies. 4. Recapturing the Center: A Socio-Semiotic Analysis of Shopping Malls. 5. Disneyland: A Utopian Urban Space. 6. Postmodern Architecture and the City. 7. The Political Economy of Postmodernism: The Signs of Growth -- Pt. III. Cultural Studies and Socio-Semiotics. 8. Hegemony and Mass Culture: A Socio-Semiotic Approach. 9. Group Differentiation in a Metropolitan High School: The Influence of Race, Class, Gender, and Culture. 10. Unisex Fashions and Gender Role Change. 11. Recovering Lost Signifieds: Cultural Criticism in a Postmodern World.
%@ 0631192158 (alk. paper)0