Perspectives on Everyday Life: A Cross Disciplinary Cultural Analysis

ISBN-13: 9783319997940 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 173 str.

Arthur Asa Berger

Opis

In the first part of the book, the Arthur Asa Berger addresses the idea of everyday life as considered by distinguished thinkers who have written books about everyday life and who, by chance, use the phrase in the titles of their books.

Spis treści

Part I: Perspectives on Everyday Life

1. Introduction

2. Perspectives on Everyday Life

3. Henri Lefebvre and Terrorism in Everyday Life

4. Michel de Certeau and Resistance to Domination

5. Fernand Braudel on the Structures in Everyday Life

6. Sigmund Freud on Psychopathology in Everyday Life

7. Milton Sapirstein and the Paradoxes of Everyday Life

8. Myth and Everyday Life

9. The Body and Everyday Life

Part II:  Everyday Life in America

10. Alarm Clocks

11. Amazon Echo Dot

12. Chandeliers at the Grammys

13. The Starbucks Coffee Shop Logo

14. Teeth Whitening Agents

15. Pacifiers

16. Toilets

17. Milk

18. Pressure Cookers

19. Diet Products

20. Hairstyles

21. College Rejection Letters

22. Air Jordans

23. French Fries

24. Backpacks

25. Mattresses

26. Women’s Shoes

27. Madonna’s “Like a Prayer”

28. Suitcases

29. Super Glue

30. Calendars

31. Coda

O autorze

Arthur Asa Berger is Professor Emeritus of Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts at San Francisco State University, USA. He has published more than one hundred articles and more than seventy books on media, popular culture, communication, material culture, tourism and humor. His books have been translated into ten languages.