"This new edition of MYTHOLOGIES is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic, Roland Barthes's most emblematic work"--Provided by publisher.

Originally published: France : Éditions du Seuil, 1957.

Translator's note / Richard Howard -- Preface to the 1970 edition -- Preface to the 1957 edition -- PART I: MYTHOLOGIES. In the ring -- The Harcourt actor -- Romans in the movies -- The writer on vacation -- The "blue blood" cruise -- Criticism blind and dumb -- Saponids and detergents -- The poor and the proletariat -- Martians -- Operations Astra -- Conjugals -- Dominici, or, The Triumph of Literature -- Iconography of Abbé Pierre -- Novels and children -- Toys -- Paris not flooded -- Bichon among the blacks -- A sympathetic worker -- Garbo's face -- Power and "cool" -- Wine and milk -- Steak-frites -- The nautilus and the Bateau Ivre -- Depth advertising -- A few words from Monsieur Poujade -- Adamov and language -- Einstein's brain -- The jet-man -- Racine is Racine -- Billy Graham at the Vel'D'Hiv' -- The Dupriez trial -- Shock photos -- Two m yths of the new theater -- The tour de France as epic -- The Glue Guide -- Agony columns -- Ornamental cuisine -- The Batory cruise -- The m an in the street on strike -- African grammar -- Neither/Nor criticism -- Striptease -- The new Citroën -- Literature according to Minou Drouet -- Electoral photogeny -- Lost Continent -- Astrology -- The Bourgeois art of song -- Plastic -- The great family of man -- At the music hall -- The Lady of the Cmaellias -- Poujade and the intellectuals.