Roland Barthes's collection of essays analyzing everyday objects and practices of French popular culture as mythologies — systems of signs that naturalize bourgeois ideology by making historical constructs appear natural and eternal.
Established semiotic analysis of popular culture; demonstrated how ideology operates through the naturalization of signs; coined 'myth' as second-order signification that drains history from signs.
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