Mythologies /
Barthes, Roland,
Mythologies / Roland Barthes ; selected and translated from the French by Annette Lavers. - Revised Vintage edition / with an introduction by Neil Badmington ; 'Astrology' translated by Siân Reynolds. - xx, 187 pages ; 20 cm. - Vintage classics . - Vintage classics (London, England) .
Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 1972.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xiii-xiv).
'Mythologies' is a series of essays on the codings that command our daily life, from hairstyles in the film Julius Caesar to glossy photographs of gourmet cooking, to the cult of foam in detergents. "In this magnificent and often surprising collection of essays Barthes explores the myths of mass culture. Taking subjects as diverse as wrestling, films, plastic and cars, Barthes elegantly deciphers the symbols and signs embedded deep in familiar aspects of modern life, unmasking the hidden ideologies and meanings which implicitly affect our thought and behaviour. This early classic of semiotics from one of France's greatest thinkers may irrevocably change the way you view the world around you."
9780099529750
Philosophy, French.
Popular culture.
Semiotics.
844.912 BA.M 2009
Mythologies / Roland Barthes ; selected and translated from the French by Annette Lavers. - Revised Vintage edition / with an introduction by Neil Badmington ; 'Astrology' translated by Siân Reynolds. - xx, 187 pages ; 20 cm. - Vintage classics . - Vintage classics (London, England) .
Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 1972.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xiii-xiv).
'Mythologies' is a series of essays on the codings that command our daily life, from hairstyles in the film Julius Caesar to glossy photographs of gourmet cooking, to the cult of foam in detergents. "In this magnificent and often surprising collection of essays Barthes explores the myths of mass culture. Taking subjects as diverse as wrestling, films, plastic and cars, Barthes elegantly deciphers the symbols and signs embedded deep in familiar aspects of modern life, unmasking the hidden ideologies and meanings which implicitly affect our thought and behaviour. This early classic of semiotics from one of France's greatest thinkers may irrevocably change the way you view the world around you."
9780099529750
Philosophy, French.
Popular culture.
Semiotics.
844.912 BA.M 2009
