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020			_a9780230303683 (hbk.)
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082	0	4	_a658.8342 _bIQA _222
100	1		_aIqani, Mehita. _941933
245	1	0	_aConsumer culture and the media : _bmagazines in the public eye / _cMehita Iqani.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aBasingstoke ; _aNew York : _bPalgrave Macmillan, _c2012.
300			_ax, 190 p. : _bill. ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	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.
520			_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.
650		7	_aConsumption (Economics) _xSocial aspects. _2BUEsh _937750
650		7	_aConsumer behavior _xPsychological aspects. _2BUEsh _936888
650		7	_aMagazine covers _xSocial aspects. _2BUEsh
650		7	_aMass media _xInfluence. _2BUEsh
651			_2BUEsh
653			_bCOMAME _cNovember2018
655			_vReading book
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