| Description |
xiii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-318) and indexes. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction. Beginning at the Beginning. An Anthropologist Goes to the Movies. Cultural Anthropology and the Movies. Which Movies? An Anthropologist Goes to the Movies, Take 2 -- 2. The Primacy of Myth. What Is Myth? The Nature of Myth. The Foundations of a Cultural Analysis of Myth. A Semiotic Approach to Modern Culture: Myth Today, Totemism Today. Myth and Language -- 3. A Theory of Culture as Semiospace. Before and Beyond Language: Cultural Anthropology, Quantum Mechanics, and Cosmology. Metaphor, Quality Space, and Semiospace. Dimensionality in Nature and Culture. Processual Analysis and Cultural Dimensionality: Liminality, Social Drama, and Social Field. Intersystem and Continuum. Cultural Generativity. The Semiotic Dimensions of Culture -- 4. The Story of Bond. James Bond: An American Myth? How to Do -- and Not to Do -- Cultural Analysis: The Novel-Bond and the Movie-Bond. Gadgets and Gladiators: The Master of Machines. |
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Myth in motion pictures.
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Heroes in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- Semiotics.
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Heroes in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst00955587
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Motion pictures -- Semiotics.
(OCoLC)fst01027380
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Myth in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01031694
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Kulturanalyse.
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Kulturanthropologie.
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Selbstbild.
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Film.
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Mythos.
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United States.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Drummond, Lee, 1944- American dreamtime. Lanham, Md. : Littlefield Adams Books, ©1996 (OCoLC)604246138 |
| ISBN |
082263046X (alk. paper) |
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9780822630463 (alk. paper) |
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0822630478 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780822630470 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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