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Structural Units of Mass Culture Mythology
Lyudmyla Zaporozhtseva
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Social Tartu University Press 9789949032150 Available
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Other title information: A Cultural Semiotic Approach
Annotation: My dissertation focuses on the study of myths and their semiotic mechanisms that appear in contemporary mass culture texts. Although myths and mass culture as a whole have been widely discussed from the perspectives of various disciplines, there are no studies that deal with the systematization of mass culture mythology and the semiotic definition of mythic markers. The topic of this dissertation is interesting not only from a general theoretical, philosophical, anthropological and semiotic perspective, but also for practical reasons. I believe that I can convincingly show in my work that the study and identification of semiotic mechanisms of mass culture myths is applicable in the field of marketing semiotics and social communication. In my dissertation, I first compare mass culture mythology from a sociological, philosophical-anthropological and semiotic perspective. This allows me to combine the two main epistemological approaches to myth research and treat myth as a holistic meta-concept on the one hand, and approach myth as a cultural text on the other. Based on the framework I have created, I will analyze various texts of mass culture in my work and focus on identifying the most common and enduring structural units of mass culture mythology. How do I define a smaller unit of myth? In defining it, I will rely on two structural principles of myth: the emic unit, which I denote by the concept of mythologeme, and the hybrid unit, which I denote by the concept of mytheme. In the course of the analysis, I will highlight the following mythologemes: Fate, Journey, Universality, Catastrophe, Golden Age and Mother Nature, and the mythemes: Transformation and Return. In addition to distinguishing the aforementioned mythologemes and mythemes, I will highlight their value and function in mythological discourse. Fate and Journey help to integrate the life of the individual into the whole. The mythologeme of Mother Nature is associated with the existential need of a person to search for authenticity and identity. The mythologemes of the Universe, Catastrophe and Golden Age constitute the human time-spatial past-present-future triad. The latter are related to human questions about the origin of the world, nostalgia for the past and fears about the future. The mythologeme of Transformation points to the idea of miracle and the mythologeme of Return to the time-spatial axis of the human semiosphere, to orderliness. The last chapter of the work applies the theoretical framework developed in the dissertation to specific case studies. The first of them is dedicated to the analysis of the TV political marketing of the Ukrainian politician Darth Vader, and there I show how archetypal mythological meanings were included in the structure of the political narrative. The second case study focuses on the development of a specific brand, which I did in collaboration with the well-known Russian pop artist Manizha, and where I apply the mythologeme of Mother Nature.Further research into mythologemes and mythemes could open up new semiotic markers and thereby expand the field of application of semiotics, as well as help to better understand the mythological basis of culture. This dissertation presents a semiotic study of myth revealing in contemporary mass cultural texts and exploration of its inner semiotic machinery. Although a variety of studies have been devoted to myth, and quite a few studies have tackled mass culture issues, less attention has been given to the systematic articulation of mass cultural mythology and its markers, which reveal its inner semiotic machinery. Those issues are relevant not only from a general theoretical philosophical, anthropological, and semiotic point of view, but also have concrete applicability in marketing semiotics and social communications. Firstly, I discuss mass culture under an emancipatory umbrella approach and explore mass culture mythology from the sociological, philosophical-anthropological and semiotic perspectives. Secondly, I combine two main epistemological attitudes of myth and integrate a holistic object of research – which appears as a meta-concept – from one side, and a text of culture – mass cultural narratives around brands conveying their main values – from the other side . Thirdly, I discuss the smallest units of mass culture mythology and explore its most widespread structural units. I classify the smallest units of myth by their structural principles: the emic units (mythologemes) and the hybrid ones (mythemes). There are the mythologemes of Fate, Course, Universe, Catastrophe, Golden Age, and Mother Nature, and the mythemes of Transformation and Backtracking considered in detail. The main existential values of those smallest mythological units are discussed. The mythologemes of Fate and Course help to understand individual life as a part of an integral whole. The mythologeme of Mother Nature relates to the existential search for inner authenticity and identity. The mythologemes of Universe, Catastrophe, and Golden Age constitute an integral triadic idea about time and space (past-present-future) and reflect the human existential quest for an explanation of the world origin, nostalgia for the past and fears about the future. The mytheme of Transformation represents the idea of mythological miracle, and the mytheme of Backtracking appeals to the idea of a mastered time and space. Fourthly, I extend the process to find more minimal units of myth in cultural texts of different genres. The first case is dedicated to close analysis of the television communication of the Ukrainian politician Darth Vader. This case demonstrates the combination of archaic meanings and contemporary forms of myth within a narrative, producing new powerful connotations. The second case applies the Mother Nature mythologeme as a branding tool for building a coherent image of a musical artist. The further exploration of the mythologemes and mythemes and articulation of other semiotic markers of myth systematically enriches a profound understanding of human mind and culture.
Identifier: 9789949032150
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Companion to European Heritage Revivals
Edited by Linde Egberts | Koos Bosma
Culture SpringerOpen 9783319077697 Available
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Annotation: This Companion to European Heritage Revivals offers inspiration and new ideas to those who want to engage a large, international audience in activities which bring the past to life. It offers a critical examination of the field's basic concepts and discusses a vast array of 'heritage revival tools', including games, historical re-enactments, 3D-visualisations, films, television documentaries, spatial designs and, most importantly, international heritage routes. Through many case studies, this book demonstrates how various aspects of heritage can be effectively presented by linking historical places and landscapes in a single revival to create a multifaceted but coherent whole.
Identifier: 9783319077697
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Le Sida a la television francaise
Lucrecia Escudero Chauvel
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 705-708
Semiotics Around the World
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Communicative situations: The cinema and the television situation
FRANCESCO CASETTI
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.112.1-2.35
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.112.1-2.35
Du ‘signe ironique’ à l’énonce ironique
MARLENA BRAESTER
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.92.1-2.75
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.92.1-2.75
Paralinguistic character structure in popular syndicated television: 2n TV
ALAN D. MANNING
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.89.1-3.47
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.89.1-3.47
Publications received
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.92.1-2.177
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.92.1-2.177
Review article
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.92.1-2.87
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.92.1-2.87
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.92.1-2.u
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.92.1-2.u
Stardom and symbolic degeneracy: Television and the transformation of the stars as public symbols
BARRY KING
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-48
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.92.1-2.1
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.92.1-2.1
Submerged forms: Properties of plot in narrative discourse
JEANNETTE MARIE MAGEO
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.92.1-2.49
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.92.1-2.49
The Rediscovery of the Audience in Television Studies
Robert C. Allen
In: The Semiotic Web 1989
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- 447-470
The Semiotic Web
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A structure for a modern myth: Television and the transsexual
ROGER SILVERSTONE
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.49.1-2.95
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.49.1-2.95
Semiotics and the philosophy of language
Umberto Eco
General Semiotics Indiana University Press 0253351685 Available
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Annotation: Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language comprehends the entire tradition of the doctrine of signs, threading its way through the symbolic and allegorical readings of the Holy Scriptures, the varying insights of the fields of philosophy and rhetoric, and into (and out of) the various positions of modern literary criticism. Individual chapters are devoted to the nature of signs; the theory of definition; the cognitive function of metaphors and symbols; mirror images, painting, film, and television; and the role of inference in the interpretation of texts
Identifier: 0253351685
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