Seeing Through the Media

Teachers, parents, religious leaders and others who are concerned with the dangers of cultural colonization will find in this book strategies to counteract the Christian church's loss of cultural influence in our age of electronic media.

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

1

(6)

1. The Problem of Popular Culture

7

(29)

How I Came to Write This Book

7

(7)

Cultural Action Cultural Agency

14

(6)

Problems for Religious Traditions

20

(1)

Religion as a Culture

21

(2)

The Religious Culture as a Culture of Resistance

23

(4)

Religious Vision and Life Structure

27

(3)

Images and Life Structure

30

(6)

2. What Is Culture?

36

(26)

Understanding Culture

38

(2)

Culture in Historical Perspective

40

(4)

The Contribution of Marx

44

(2)

Culture as a Signifying System

46

(2)

Religion and Culture: The New Situation

48

(3)

The Religious Critique of Culture: The Church as an Example

51

(3)

Appreciating the Wider Culture

54

(8)

3. Cultural Reproduction among the Young

62

(18)

Schools and the Selective Tradition

66

(3)

Culture and the Structure of Feeling

69

(11)

4. Cultural Production as an Avenue to Cultural Analysis

80

(42)

Marx and the Subsequent Ignoring of Cultural Production

82

(4)

Language as the Seminal "Product" in Cultural Production

86

(1)

Rescuing Production from Determinism

87

(4)

Critical Demystification

91

(3)

Examining Cultural Products at Points of Consumption and Production

94

(3)

The Production of "Popular" Music and Toys

97

(3)

Frame Analysis of "Young Turks"

100

(6)

Analysis of Production and Consumption: Children's Toys

106

(5)

Full Participation in the Production of Religious Meaning: A Roman Catholic Example

111

(5)

Questions to Foster Cultural Analysis

116

(6)

5. A Theory of Images in Cultural Systems

122

(30)

Iconic Images

123

(5)

Iconic Images and Mimesis

128

(7)

The Significance of Iconic Images

135

(5)

Critiquing or Contesting Images: Single-frame Images

140

(3)

Critiquing or Contesting Narrative Images

143

(9)

6. Metaphoric Images as Signifiers

152

(17)

Understanding Metaphoric Images

152

(2)

Comprehensive Metaphors

154

(1)

Cultural Action and Metaphoric Images

155

(4)

Learning to Contest Single Metaphors and Analogies

159

(2)

Inappropriate Metaphors: Some Examples

161

(8)

7. Hegemony and the Possibilities of Contestation

169

(28)

Baudrillard's World of Simulation

171

(5)

The Culture of Surface: Corroboration of Baudrillard's Position

176

(6)

Raymond William's Description of Hegemony

182

(6)

The Capacity for Cultural Transcendence: Criticism of Culture

188

(2)

Another Look at the Religious Question

190

(7)

Bibliography

197

(10)

Index

207

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