Influences: Readings.

1. De/constructing Fashion/Fashions of Deconstruction: Cindy Sherman's Fashion Photographs. Hanne Loreck.

2. LONELINESS AND MULTITUDES GREGORY CREWDSON'S SINGULAR APPROACH. Amy Larocca.

3. Natural-Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture. David Shcmid.

4. HOLLYWOOD MOVIES, AMERICA STEREOTYPED. Walter Klinger.

5. The Fetishism of the Commodity and it's Secret. Karl Marx.

6. The Dynamics Behind the Advertisement. Jib Fowles.

7. Rhetoric of the Image. Roland Barthes.

8. Advertising Discourse: Selling Between the Lines. Donald Matheson.

9. Metanarratives of Stardom and Identity, from Dancing in the Distraction Factory: Music, Television and Popular Culture. Andrew Goodwin.

10. Uta Barth, Gerhard Richter, and the influence of Photography on Painting. Clifford Elgin.

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