TY - BOOK ID - 142265563 TI - Luxury and American consumer culture : a socio-semiotic analysis PY - 2021 SN - 1527571394 PB - Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Luxury KW - Consumption (Economics) KW - Social aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142265563 AB - Using concepts from semiotics, psychoanalytic theory, sociology, and Marxism, this book analyzes the role of luxury in American consumer culture. It offers case studies that deal with how our love of luxury affects our choices of automobiles, homes, restaurants, cruises, department stores, and hotels. It also adopts a global perspective and features analyses of luxury in China, Iran, Germany, Monaco, Russia, and Turkey by scholars from those countries. ER -