Consumption Markets and Culture

The development of Chinese cinema's commercial entertainment trend from the mid to late 1990s was both the result and the manifestation of the Chinese film industry's shifting economic and cultural orientations. The marketization and decentralization of the film industry directly contributed to the surge of entertainment pictures. The ongoing economic reform was accompanied by the rise of popular culture led by Hollywood imports, which further opened the floodgates to Chinese cinema's commercial entertainment wave. Major cinematic trends during the period are addressed. Such trends directly responded to the industry's marketization agenda.

Ying Zhu

Consumption Markets & Culture

Commercialization and Chinese Cinema's Post-wave

商业化与中国电影的后浪潮

This paper examines aesthetics in everyday consumption practices and patterns. Combining aesthetic theory with prior work of consumer scholars to support our theoretical framework, we investigate empirically the following issues: the integration of aesthetics into everyday consumption, the distinction between everyday aesthetics and of the arts, and the relationship between aestheti cs and the construction of meaning and identity. In addition, we introduce the idea of the consumer as an aesthetic subject. The data also shed light on the following aspects of aesthetic consumption: intrinsic value versus instrumental value, emotions, sensory pleasure, beauty, context, and taste formation.

Alladi Venkatesh

Laurie A. Meamber

The aesthetics of consumption and the consumer as an aesthetic subject

消费美学与作为审美主体的消费者

This article synthesizes previous literature on consumption, surrounding matters of aesthetic deliberation to offer a conceptual discussion of consumer-cultural aestheticization processes. Our main argument is twofold. First, we seek to re-orient the discussion of “the aesthetic” (i.e. something that is aesthetic) toward the processes that render something aesthetic (i.e. how something is made aesthetic). Second, on this basis, we conceptualize three groups of interrelated processes that cut across past research on aesthetics and elucidate how aestheticization permeates consumption, brand, and market processes. We discuss theoretical and empirical implications of this conceptualization in terms of (re-) enchantment, mythmaking, and aesthetics for future work on the nexus of consumption, brands, and markets.

Ileyha Dagalp

Benjamin J. Hartmann

Consumption Markets &amp; Culture

From “aesthetic” to aestheticization: a multi-layered cultural approach

从“美学”到美学化：一种多层次的文化方法

This article presents a review of recent thinking about consumers’ aesthetic experiences. These experiences are examined within the context of philosophical, psychological, and social science perspectives on aesthetics. A distinction is made between aesthetic products and aesthetic consumption, and these two concepts are discussed in terms of marketing views of their core elements. The review also reflects on the impact of “postmodernism” on aesthetics within marketing. Consideration is given to four philosophical conundrums relating to the aesthetic experience which are relevant to marketing theory: disinterested attention; objective and subjective taste; the nature of the aesthetic encounter; and the relationship of evaluation to preference.

Steve Charters

Aesthetic Products and Aesthetic Consumption: A Review

美学产品与美学消费：综述

Anxiety is widely understood to be a harmful consequence of engagement with digital technologies such as social media. Although digital life is studied by cultural consumer researchers, its psychic effects are not well explored. We focus on anxiety as a psychosocial effect of digital consumer culture by elaborating on Teresa Brennan's theorisation of the connection between technological development, subject formations, and space–time relations. We propose four psychosocial trends that propel anxiety, illustrated by composite narratives: objectification, immediacy, disembodiment, and estrangement. Our narratives emphasise a spatio-temporal shift in how the subject relates to itself and others, conditioning the emergence of a reactive subjectivity driven by self-examination and modification rather than relationality. This offers an understanding of how digital technologies shape subject formations to be anxious, thereby attending to capital interests invested in propelling a reactive state of subjectivity at the expense of the spontaneous, relational experience of being human.

Aliette Lambert

Alice Wickström

Anxiety in digital consumer culture: a psychoanalytic reflection on the emergence of a reactive subjectivity

数字消费文化中的焦虑：对反应性主体性出现的心理分析反思

Stephen Dunne

The improprietorial pentagram

不正当的五角星

Welmoed van Hoogen

Charles T. Tackney

Enabling and managing commodified authentic experiences: the high-class escort sector in The Netherlands

实现和管理商品化真实体验：荷兰的高级伴游行业

Alexander Paulsson

The market that could be but is not: market failure as ontological politics and the reconfiguration of public transport in Stockholm

可能存在却未形成的市场：市场失灵作为本体论政治与斯德哥尔摩公共交通的重构

Alkkiomäki Tiia

Syrjälä Henna

Hanna Leipämaa-Leskinen

Elina Ellonen

Critical discourse analysis of fast fashion companies' legitimation strategies on Instagram

快时尚公司在Instagram上的合法化策略的批评性话语分析

Abbreviation	Consum. Mark. Cult.
Journal Impact	1.83
Quartiles(Global)	BUSINESS(Q3)

ISSN	1025-3866, 1477-223X
h-index	39

Publication Information	Publisher: Routledge，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 2010，Proportion of original research papers: 100.00%，Self Citation Rate:15.80%， Gold OA Rate: 29.63%

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Commercialization and Chinese Cinema's Post-wave

The aesthetics of consumption and the consumer as an aesthetic subject

From “aesthetic” to aestheticization: a multi-layered cultural approach

Aesthetic Products and Aesthetic Consumption: A Review

Anxiety in digital consumer culture: a psychoanalytic reflection on the emergence of a reactive subjectivity

Anxiety in digital consumer culture: a psychoanalytic reflection on the emergence of a reactive subjectivity

The improprietorial pentagram

Enabling and managing commodified authentic experiences: the high-class escort sector in The Netherlands

The market that could be but is not: market failure as ontological politics and the reconfiguration of public transport in Stockholm

Critical discourse analysis of fast fashion companies' legitimation strategies on Instagram