James B Twitchell
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 115016 |
|---|---|
| NOME | James B Twitchell |
| PRENOMES | James B |
| SOBRENOME | Twitchell |
| ASSINATURA | TWITCHELL J B |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
An English Teacher Looks at Branding
About 15 years ago I was teaching a survey course in Romantic poetry, and some student asked why the course was a requirement for graduation. I explained the importance of cultural literacy as a goal of school-based education. To show them how common knowledge worked, I said that at the end of the nineteenth century almost any literate person could fill in the blank in this sentence: “My heart leaps up when I behold a [blank] in the sky.” Who tod…
Living It Up
Economic downturns and terrorist attacks notwithstanding, America's love affair with luxury continues unabated. Over the last several years, luxury spending in the United States has been growing four times faster than overall spending. It has been characterized by political leaders as vital to the health of the American economy as a whole, even as an act of patriotism. Accordingly, indices of consumer confidence and purchasing seem unaffected by …
Living it up
The democratization of luxury, Twitchell contends, has been the single most important marketing phenomenon of our times
Lead Us into Temptation
Journal Article Lead Us into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism. By James B. Twitchell. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. x, 310 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-231-11518-0.) and Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit. By Lendol Calder. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. xvi, 377 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-05827-X.) Get access Regina Lee Blaszczyk Regina Lee Blaszczyk Boston University, Boston, Massac…
Carnival Culture
Untended gates - the triumph of vulgarity in an age of show business paperbacked culture - how candles became shoes peepshow America - Hollywood and popular taste programming television - reflections on the electronic midway vulgarity victorious - the collapse of cultural hierarchy in postmodern America
Pissing in the Snow
Carnival Culture
Preposterous Teenagers
Forbidden Partners
Proposes that the unease we feel thinking and talking about incest is a learned behavior and examines the anxiety of incest as it has been continually refitted into fictional family structures since the turn of the 19th century
The Living Dead
In his Preface to T he Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature , James Twitchell writes that he is not interested in the current generation of vampires, which he finds rude, boring and hopelessly adolescent. However, they have not always been this way. In fact, a century ago they were often quite sophisticated, used by artists varied as Blake, Poe, Coleridge, the Brontes, Shelley, and Keats, to explain aspects of interpersonal …
"The Incest Theme and the Authenticity of the Percy Version of "Edward
Forbidden Partners
Proposes that the unease we feel thinking and talking about incest is a learned behavior and examines the anxiety of incest as it has been continually refitted into fictional family structures since the turn of the 19th century
Carnival Culture
Untended gates - the triumph of vulgarity in an age of show business paperbacked culture - how candles became shoes peepshow America - Hollywood and popular taste programming television - reflections on the electronic midway vulgarity victorious - the collapse of cultural hierarchy in postmodern America
Lead Us into Temptation
Journal Article Lead Us into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism. By James B. Twitchell. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. x, 310 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-231-11518-0.) and Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit. By Lendol Calder. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. xvi, 377 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-05827-X.) Get access Regina Lee Blaszczyk Regina Lee Blaszczyk Boston University, Boston, Massac…
An English Teacher Looks at Branding
About 15 years ago I was teaching a survey course in Romantic poetry, and some student asked why the course was a requirement for graduation. I explained the importance of cultural literacy as a goal of school-based education. To show them how common knowledge worked, I said that at the end of the nineteenth century almost any literate person could fill in the blank in this sentence: “My heart leaps up when I behold a [blank] in the sky.” Who tod…
Pissing in the Snow
"The Incest Theme and the Authenticity of the Percy Version of "Edward
The Living Dead
In his Preface to T he Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature , James Twitchell writes that he is not interested in the current generation of vampires, which he finds rude, boring and hopelessly adolescent. However, they have not always been this way. In fact, a century ago they were often quite sophisticated, used by artists varied as Blake, Poe, Coleridge, the Brontes, Shelley, and Keats, to explain aspects of interpersonal …
Forbidden Partners
Proposes that the unease we feel thinking and talking about incest is a learned behavior and examines the anxiety of incest as it has been continually refitted into fictional family structures since the turn of the 19th century
Preposterous Teenagers
Carnival Culture
Pissing in the Snow
Carnival Culture
Untended gates - the triumph of vulgarity in an age of show business paperbacked culture - how candles became shoes peepshow America - Hollywood and popular taste programming television - reflections on the electronic midway vulgarity victorious - the collapse of cultural hierarchy in postmodern America
Lead Us into Temptation
Journal Article Lead Us into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism. By James B. Twitchell. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. x, 310 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-231-11518-0.) and Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit. By Lendol Calder. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. xvi, 377 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-05827-X.) Get access Regina Lee Blaszczyk Regina Lee Blaszczyk Boston University, Boston, Massac…
Living It Up
Economic downturns and terrorist attacks notwithstanding, America's love affair with luxury continues unabated. Over the last several years, luxury spending in the United States has been growing four times faster than overall spending. It has been characterized by political leaders as vital to the health of the American economy as a whole, even as an act of patriotism. Accordingly, indices of consumer confidence and purchasing seem unaffected by …
Living it up
The democratization of luxury, Twitchell contends, has been the single most important marketing phenomenon of our times
An English Teacher Looks at Branding
About 15 years ago I was teaching a survey course in Romantic poetry, and some student asked why the course was a requirement for graduation. I explained the importance of cultural literacy as a goal of school-based education. To show them how common knowledge worked, I said that at the end of the nineteenth century almost any literate person could fill in the blank in this sentence: “My heart leaps up when I behold a [blank] in the sky.” Who tod…
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