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Author Coombe, Rosemary J.

Title The cultural life of intellectual properties [electronic resource] : authorship, appropriation, and the law / Rosemary J. Coombe.

Imprint Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.

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Description xi, 462 p.
Series Post-contemporary interventions
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Post-contemporary interventions.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [398]-443) and index.
Contents Introduction: Authoring Culture. A Critical Cultural Legal Studies. Against Culture(s). Anthropology's Trademark and Its Academic Others. Authoring Alterity. Contested Cultures. Legalities,Identities, and Mass Media. Authorship and Alterity -- Objects of Property and Subjects of Politics: Objects and Subjects. Historicizing the Subject. Postmodern Culture. It's a Small, Small world. Postmodern Goods. Author(iz)ing the Corporate Persona. Manufacturing Distinction. Fixing the Signifier/Owning the Sign. Activist Appropriations. PolicingPostmodern Precincts. Xerox Cultures. Dialogicsof Postmodern Politics -- Author(iz)ing the Celebrity: Engendering Alternative Identities: The Value of the CelebrityPersona. CelebrityAuthorship. The CelebrityForm and the Politicsof Postmodernism. Doing Gender. Respecting Judy. Fictionalized Sexualities. Enterprising Women. Engendering and EndangeringAlternative Identities -- Tactics of Appropriation and the Politics of Recognition: PoliticalArticulations. Official Signifiers. Postmodernity and the Rumor. Racial Inscriptions and Iterations. Corporeal Vulnerability. Signifyin(g) Powers -- Embodied Trademarks: Mimesis and Alterity on American Commercial Frontiers. Mimicry, Alterity, and Embodiment. Marked and Unmarked Bodies. Contemporary Contestations. Fighting Redskins. Consuming Crazy Horse. Mimicking Authors at the Altars of Property -- The Properties of Culture and the Politics of Possessing Identity: Whose VoiceIs It Anyway? The European Art/Culture System. Contemporary Properties of Culture and Identity. Listening to Native Claims "in Context". Representation without Representation: Visibility without Voice. Possessive Individualism Revisited: Authorship and Cultural Identity. Aboriginal Title -- Dialogic Democracy I: Authorship and Alterity in Public Spheres: The Author in the Modern Public Sphere. FreeSpeech in the Condition of Postmodernity. Objects and Subjects Redux -- Dialogic Democracy II: Alterity and Articulation in the Space of the Political: Locating the Politics of the Public Sphere. Mass Mediation and the Publics of Civil Society. The Spaceof the Signature. The Unworked Community. An Ethics of Contingency.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Intellectual property -- United States.
Critical legal studies -- United States.
Popular culture -- United States.
United States -- Cultural policy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780822382492
0822382490
0822321033 (alk. paper)
9780822321033 (alk. paper)
082232119X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822321194 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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