03317cam a22003615a 4500 26993 26965 016076440 Uk 20181114133801.0 120423s2012 enka frb 001 0 eng d GBB242033 bnb 016076440 Uk 9780230303683 (hbk.) 0230303684 (hbk.) StDuBDS eng StDuBDS Uk EG-ScBUE ukblcatcopy 658.8342 IQA 22 Iqani, Mehita. 41933 Consumer culture and the media : magazines in the public eye / Mehita Iqani. 1st ed. Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. x, 190 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Media in Consumer Culture: An Introduction; The genre of consumer magazines; Magazine covers on newsstands; Scope and arrangement of this book; 1 The Public, Identity and Power in Mediated Consumer Culture; The public in consumer culture; Consumption and identity; Power dynamics of consumer culture; The dialectics of mediated consumer culture; 2 A Research Approach for Mediated Consumer Culture; Participant observation in mediated spaces of consumption; Analysing consumer media texts. The dialectic between ethnographic and text analysis methodologies3 Media Retail Spaces as Multimodal Spectacles: The Case of the Newsstand; The social dynamics of newsstands; The spectacular semiotics of newsstands; Media retail spectacles in consumer culture; 4 Glossiness in Hyperreal Celebrity Portraiture; Celebrities on the magazine cover; Producing 'perfection': The mechanics of glossiness; The discursive power of celebrity glossiness; Glossiness in consumer media; 5 Commodity Choice and Commercial Heteroglossia in Consumer Media; Superlative objects: Commodities on the cover. Commodity-centred lifestyle scenes and narrativesVoice, choice and commercial heteroglossia; 6 Sexiness and Selling: Consumerism's Pornographic Imagination; Beautiful bodies on display; Visual consumption and the sexualized gaze; The functions of the pornographic imagination in consumer media; 7 Paper Mirrors: Images of Ideal Consumers; Face value: Hyperreal faces as ideal types; I contact: The language of direct address; The functions of paper mirroring in consumer media; 8 Media Strategies for Selling Consumer Culture: A Conclusion; Selling consumerism. Consumer culture, media and the publicMediated consumer culture, identity and power; Future opportunities in the study of mediated consumer culture; References; Index. How did consumer culture become synonymous with westernised societies? Iqani argues that it is the way it is promoted by media texts. She provides a detailed analysis of publicly displayed consumer magazine covers and engages with big questions about the public, power and identity in mediated consumer culture. Consumption (Economics) Social aspects. BUEsh 37750 Consumer behavior Psychological aspects. BUEsh 36888 Magazine covers Social aspects. BUEsh Mass media Influence. BUEsh BUEsh COMAME November2018 Reading book ddc 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 1ST 2018-11-14 Purchase 480.00 0 658.8342 IQA 000043924 2024-06-11 00:00:00 NB 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 1ST 2018-11-14 Purchase 0 658.8342 IQA 000043925 2025-07-15 00:00:00 BB 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 1ST 2018-11-14 Purchase 0 658.8342 IQA 000043926 2025-07-15 00:00:00 BB