The Face of Noomi Rapace Roy Stafford 21. Lobottonised Media - Mythological Thought for the Day Paul A.

Femininity and the Body: Spectacle and Signification Richard Berger and Mark ReadmanChapter 17: Reflections on a Passport Liesbet Van Zoonen 18. The Museum of Champions, Hyde Park, May 2011 Eileen Kennedy 16. Signs and Symptoms of the Mad Genius Simon Cross 15.

The Cultural Politics of Being a Knob Ben Pitcher 13. In Search of Higg’s Boson Angia Voela 12. The Mythologised Accretions of Press Freedom Julian Petley 11. Myths of the Digital Age Gabriel Menotti and Antonio Fernandez-VicenteChapter 9: The Zombie Walk Julia Round 10. Sherlocks for the Twenty-First Century Matt Hills 8. Tastes of Paradise:　The ‘Fair’ Trade Myth Jenni Ramone 5. Fables of Reconstructions Julian McDougall Part II: Mythologies 2.: The Face of Assange Oscar Gomez 3. Thus the book is at least two things at once whichever way you look: a ‘new’ Mythologies and a book about Barthes’ legacy, an exploration of the place of theory in critical writing, and a book about contemporary culture. These readings are then contextualized by an introduction which reflects on the ‘how’ of these engaging responses and an 'essay at the back of the book' which replaces Myth Today with a reflection on the contemporary provenance of both Barthes and his most famous book. The contributions in this volume, then, are readings of contemporary culture, each engaging with a cultural event, practice, or text as mythological. Leading academics in media, English, education, and cultural studies here are tasked with identifying the 'new mythologies' some fifty or so years on from Barthes’ original interventions. Through a revisiting of Mythologies, a key text in cultural and media studies, this volume explores the value these disciplines can add to an understanding of contemporary society and culture. This is Barthes’ seminal text reimagined in a contemporary context by contemporary academics.

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