Iconic power Materiality and meaning in social life /
A collection of original articles that explore social aspects of the phenomenon of icon. Having experienced the benefits and realized the limitations of so called 'linguistic turn', sociology has recently acknowledged a need to further expand its horizons.
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A collection of original articles that explore social aspects of the phenomenon of icon. Having experienced the benefits and realized the limitations of so called 'linguistic turn', sociology has recently acknowledged a need to further expand its horizons. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230340053, 2011. |
Carrier Form: | 272 p. |
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9780230340053 9781137012869 : 1137012862 : |
CLC: | C912.4 |
Contents: | Materiality and Meaning in Social Life: Toward an Iconic Turn in Cultural Sociology-- D.Bartmanski & J.Alexander PART I Representation, Presentation, Presence: Tracing the Homo Pictor-- G.Boehm Iconic Power and Performance: the Role of the Critic-- J.Alexander PART II Inconspicuous Revolutions of 1989. Culture and Contingency in The Making of Political Icons-- D.Bartmanski The Making of Humanitarian Visual Icons. On the 1921-1923 Russian Famine as Foundational Event-- F.Kurasawa Seeing Tragedy in the News Images of September 11-- W.Bowler The Emergence of Iconic Depth. Secular Icons in a Comparative Perspective-- W.Binder PART III Shifting Extremism: On the Political Iconology in Post-socialist Serbia-- D.Suber & S.Karamanic The Visualization of Uncertainty: HIV Statistics in Public Media-- V.Rauer How To Make an Iconic Commodity: The Case of Penfolds' Grange Wine-- I.Woodward & D.Ellison Becoming Iconic. The Cases of Woodstock and Bayreuth-- P.Smith PART IV Body and Image-- H.Belting Iconic Difference and Seduction-- B.Giesen Iconic Rituals. Towards a Social Theory of Encountering Images-- J.Sonnevend Visible Meanings-- P.Sztompka Afterword-- B.Giesen. |