Beyond `La Dolce Vita
Bourdieu, Market Heteronomy and Cultural Homogeneity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2412136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Thorpe (0000-0002-1514-5638, Robert Gordon University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 123-146 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-9755 • E-ISSN: 1749-9763 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1749975508100674 |
| OpenAlex | W1983641198 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 23 |
This article takes the main arguments made by Bourdieu in his late work On Television and Journalism and applies them to the empirical case of the production of discursive visions of Italy and the Italians in Britain from approximately 1840 to the present day. In doing so, Bourdieu's field theory is applied in order to examine and compare the range and diversity of the Italian visions produced at around the mid-point of the 19th century - a period of high cultural autonomy in England - with those produced in the present day. In the account of the present day, the dominant assemblage of discursive practices and the fields from which they derive is explicated and the extent to which these visions are shaped by the `audience ratings' mindset is scrutinized.The article concludes by reflecting on the analytical utility of Bourdieu's field theory for understanding inter-cultural representation
Autonomy · Cultural capital · Doxa · Epistemology · Habitus · Heteronomy · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Vision · Anthropology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Italy and English Literature 1764–1930
The field of cultural production
Distinction
The Making of Victorian England
The Rules of Art
Anglophil(m)ia
Bourdieu, the media and cultural production
Italy and the English Romantics. The Italianate Fashion in Early Nineteenth-Century England
Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field
Pierre Bourdieu
Sociology in question
Distinction. A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
The Forging of the Modern State
The Classical Tradition
Acts of Resistance
Media meta-capital
Field theory in comparative context
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2012 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |