Lee Barron

Tattoo Culture

Theory and Contemporary Contexts

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Produktbeschreibung

Tattoo Culture investigates contemporary tattoo culture, its fandom and popular cultural visibility through a combination of the examination of tattooing theory, conceptual understanding and ethnographic research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9781783488261
• ISBN-10: 1783488263
• Artikelnr.: 47439702

Autorenporträt

Lee Barron is a Principal Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication Design at the University of Northumbria and teaches in the areas of media, culture, advertising and branding, and celebrity culture. Dr Barron has published two books, Social Theory in Popular Culture (2013, Palgrave) and Celebrity Cultures (2015, SAGE) and has written a number of articles in journals such as: the European Journal of Cultural Studies, Popular Music History, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Cultural Politics, Postcolonial Studies, The Journal of Popular Culture, and Fashion Theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I Culture & Theory
1. From Ötzi to Trash Polka: Reading Tattoos
2. Celebrity Skin: Tattoos and Popular Culture
3. Theorising Ink: Tattooing as Semiotic Communication and Phenomenological Expression
Part II Ethnographies of Ink
4. Tattoos as Communicative Practice and Phenomenological Expression: The Tattooed Perspective
5. Needle Work: Tattoo Artists and the Studio Space
6. Tattoo Conventions: Fandom and Participatory Art Worlds Worlds
7. Tattoo Culture: Transformation, Being, and Time
Conclusion
Index