When Two Worlds Collide: representações do real e monstruosidades fantásticas no conjunto simbólico das capas de álbuns e singles da banda Iron Maiden

Rodrigo Medina Zagni

doi:10.5433/2237-9126.2009v3n4p115

When Two Worlds Collide: representations of the real and fantastic monstrosities in the symbolic set of album covers and singles by the band Iron Maiden

Authors

Rodrigo Medina Zagni Universidade de São Paulo – PROLAM/USP.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-9126.2009v3n4p115

Keywords:

Symbolic representations, Heavy metal, Iron Maiden.

Abstract

Through the study of layers of long plays, compact discs, singles and extended plays promotional English banda Iron Maiden, we identify and understand transmitter and receiver in the set of symbolic representations entered there, and the historical time in which they are inserted, the issues represented there and help in understanding the phenomenon not only as a heavy metal style music, but as a field of production of meaning.

Author Biography

Rodrigo Medina Zagni, Universidade de São Paulo – PROLAM/USP.

PhD student in Political Practices and International Relations at the Universidade de São Paulo – PROLAM/USP.

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Published

2009-05-01

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Zagni, R. M. (2009). When Two Worlds Collide: representations of the real and fantastic monstrosities in the symbolic set of album covers and singles by the band Iron Maiden. Domínios Da Imagem, 3(4), 115–136. https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-9126.2009v3n4p115

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Vol. 3 No. 4 (2009)

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