Author: Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527571394
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
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.