Theories of Consumption

<p>Theories of Consumption explores the concept of consumption from the post-disciplinary perspective of cultural studies.</p><p>John Storey brings together work that up until now has been located in distinct disciplinary spaces including work on reception theory in literary studies and philosophy; work on consumer culture in sociology anthropology and history; and work on media audiences (both ethnographic and theoretical) in media studies and sociology.</p><p>Moving beyond the usual analysis of consumer culture Storey presents a critical assessment of a range of theoretical approaches to the study of consumption. In doing so he provides an authoritative overview of a significant selection of research and analysis that has explored consumption as an object of study. </p><p>This book provides an ideal introduction to consumption for students of media and cultural studies and will also be useful for students within a number of other disciplines such as sociology history anthropology cultural geography and both literary and visual studies.</p>