03722cam a22003975a 4500999001700000001001000017003000300027005001700030008004100047015001900088016001800107020002500125020002200150040004000172042001600212082002300228100002600251245008300277250001200360260005800372300003200430504005100462505186600513520031702379650005902696650006002755650004402815650003402859651001002893653002502903655001702928942000802945952012902953952012103082952012103203  c26993d26965016076440Uk20181114133801.0120423s2012    enka   frb    001 0 eng d  aGBB2420332bnb7 a0160764402Uk  a9780230303683 (hbk.)  a0230303684 (hbk.)  aStDuBDSbengcStDuBDSdUkdEG-ScBUE  aukblcatcopy04a658.8342	bIQA2221 aIqani, Mehita.94193310aConsumer culture and the media :bmagazines in the public eye /cMehita Iqani.  a1st ed.  aBasingstoke ;aNew York :bPalgrave Macmillan,c2012.  ax, 190 p. :bill. ;c23 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aCover; 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.
  aHow 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.
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