Celia Lury

Cultural Rights (eBook, ePUB)

Technology, Legality and Personality

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Cultural Rights" combines the critical approaches of both sociology and cultural studies to provide an innovative interpretation of contemporary culture. While the book's theoretical origins lie in Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking thesis about the effects of mechanical reproduction, Celia Lury takes his analysis one step further in her examination of the near obsolete concepts of "originality" and "authenticity" in postmodern culture, where reproduction and simulation blur the border between what is real and what is fabricated.
Celia Lury establishes a clear framework of analysis by comparing a range of cultural rights through copyright, authorship and originality with those defined by trademark, branding and simulation. She provides concise and accessible histories of three major cultural technologies--print, broadcasting and information technology--and the presentation of research into the contemporary culture industry. She also explores the gendered dimensions of this transformation by looking at the significance of the category of "women" in the process of cultural reproduction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134865864
• Artikelnr.: 47887380

Autorenporträt

Celia Lury lectures in Women's Studies and Cultural Studies in the sociology department of Lancaster University.

Inhaltsangabe

1 INTRODUCTION Part I Regimes of rights 2 FROM REPETITION TO REPLICATION 3 REPLICATION
NOVELTY AND REACTIVATION 4 BRANDING
TRADEMARK AND THE VIRTUAL AUDIENCE Part II Technologies of reproduction 5 MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION: PRINT
LITERACY AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE 6 ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION: BROADCASTING
WATCHING AND PUBLIC SERVICE 7 MICRO-ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION: COMMUNICATION
THE FLOW OF INFORMATION AND USERS 8 TECHNOLOGIES OF CULTURE AND GENDER 9 SIMULATION
GENDER AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE