The Polity reader in cultural theory.
Publisher: Polity Press in association with Blackwell Publishers
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Culture; Popular culture; Mass media
Other titles: Cultural theory
Description: The basis of all biblical study is that God has revealed himself, not only through the Word, but in various ways in various times and places. These self-disclosures are called theophanies. The pivotal theophany in Old Testament times was God's revelation to Moses on Mount Sinai. So significant is this theophany in terms of God's covenant with his people and his progressive revelation that author Jeffrey J. Niehaus justifiably employs the term "Sinai theology" to convey his theme. This book explores the meaning of this theophany throughout the Old Testament -- pre-Sinai, post-Sinai (especially the prophets), and the Psalms -- and its significance for the New Testament. It also examines parallels in ancient Near Eastern traditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Theoretical considerations: Social theory, mass communication and public life / John Thompson; title: Saussure and the origin of semiotics / Robert Hodge and Gunther Kress; title: The field of cultural production / Pierre Bourdieu; title: Critique of commodity aesthetics / W. F. Haug; title: Critical theory and the consumer society / Douglas Kellner; title: The emergence of the public sphere / Jürgen Habermas; title: The theory of the public sphere : a critical appraisal / John Thompson; title: The dynamics of electronic networks / G. J. Mulgan; title: The masses : the implosion of the social in the media / Jean Baudrillard; title: The question of cultural identity / Stuart Hall; title: Baudrillard and TV ads / Mark Poster; title: Postmodernist sensibility / Scott Lash and John Urry; title: The decline of modernism / Peter Bürger. Media representation: Media sport / John Hargreaves; title: Ten theses on children and television / Bob Hodge and David Tripp; title: The emergence of the consumer society / Robert Bocock; title: Women and soap opera / Christine Geraghty; title: Feminist romance / Anne Cranny-Francis; title: The invisible flâneuse : women and the literature of modernity / Janet Wolff; title: The myth of Marilyn Monroe / Graham McCann; title: Reading popular culture: A message from Kakania : Freud, music, criticism / Malcolm Bowie; title: The analysis of popular music / John Shepherd; title: Music for pleasure / Simon Firth; title: Comic subversions : comedy as strategy in feminist theatre / Lizbeth Goodman; title: Gilbert and Sullivan : the making and unmaking of a British 'tradition' / David Cannadine; title: The great reception : surrealism and Kandinsky's inner eye / Mary Ann Caws; title: Barthes on theatre / Michael Moriarty; title: Fashion taste and eating out / Joanne Finkelstein; title: The sublime and the avante-garde / Jean François Lyotard; title: The exorcist and The omen, or modern and postmodern limits to knowledge / Zygmunt Bauman.