Iconic Power [electronic resource] : Materiality and Meaning in Social Life /
Alexander, Jeffrey C.editor.
Bartmański, Dominik.editor.
Giesen, Bernhard.editor.
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Representation, presentation, presence: tracing the Homo pictor / Gottfried Boehm -- Iconic power and performance: the role of the critic / Jeffrey C. Alexander -- Iconspicuous revolutions of 1989: culture and contingency in the making of political icons / Dominik Bartmanski -- The making of humanitarian visual icons: on the 1921-1923 Russian famine as foundational event / Fuyuki Kurasawa -- Seeing tragedy in the news images of September 11 / Wendy Bowler -- The emergence of iconic depth: secular icons in a comparative perspective / Werner Binder -- Shifting extremisms: on the political iconology in contemporary Serbia / Daniel Suber and Slobodan Karamanic -- The visualization of uncertainty: HIV statistics in public media / Valentin Rauer -- How to make an iconic commodity: the case of Penfolds' Grange wine / Ian Woodward and David Ellison -- Becoming iconic: the cases of Woodstock and Bayreuth / Philip Smith -- Body and image / Hans Belting -- Iconic difference and seduction / Bernhard Giesen -- Iconic rituals: towards a social theory of encountering images / Julia Sonnevend -- Visible meanings / Piotr Sztompka.
Communication.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Sociology of Culture.
Sociology, general.
Media Studies.
Cultural Studies.
Regional and Cultural Studies.