Iconic Power

Materiality and Meaning in Social Life
2012. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-34005-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Cultural Sociology

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alexander, J.

Bartmanski, D.

Giesen, B.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.Šuber & 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

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University, USA
Dominik Bartma?ski, Yale University, USA
Gottfried Boehm, Basel University, Switzerland
Hans Belting, Northwestern University, USA
Fuyuki Kurasawa, York University, Canada
Wendy Bowler, LaTrobe University, Australia
Werner Binder, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Philip Smith, Yale University, USA
Ian Woodward, Griffith University, Australia
David Ellison, Griffith University, Australia
Daniel uber, University of Lucerne, Switzerland
Slobodan Karamani?, Ljubljana Graduate School of the Humanities, Slovenia
Valentin Rauer, Goethe University Frankfurt Main, Germany

Bernhard Giesen, Universität Konstanz, Germany
Julia Sonnevend, Columbia University, USA

Piotr Sztompka, Jagiellonian University, Poland