Culture: Approach, Theory, Concept, Biblio

Books by Stewart Ewen Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture. New York: McGraw-Hill (1976). ISBN 0070198454. Channels of Desire: Mass Images and the Shaping of American Consciousness (co-authored with Elizabeth Ewen). New York: McGraw-Hill (1982). ISBN 978-0816618903. All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture. New York: […]

Movie Stars: Approach, Theory, Bibli0, Basinger, Jeremy Butler’s Star Texts (Bogart)

Jeanine Basinger, The Star Machine The system of star making; the machine from the late 1920s to 1960. The practical business of manfacturng illusions How the machine worked? The business of making commodities out of real-living individuals Stars as manufactured commodi. The goal was to find  potential stars, create, shape and polish them and then […]

100 Books: Texts That Influenced My Thinking–“Your God is Alive and Well and Appearing in Popular Culture,” by John Wiley Nelson  

Through mediums like Westerns, country music, and detective novels, John Nelson explains how we internalize our American values without even knowing it.

Queer Cinema: Contemporary France–Five Directors

Queer Cinema: Contemporary France–Five Directors

Film Theory: Watt, Ian–Rise of the Novel (Applied to Rise of the Film)

For Watt, the novel’s ‘novelty’ was its ‘formal realism,’ the idea ‘that the novel is a full and authentic report of human experience.’