Lifestyle media - books, magazines, websites, radio andtelevision
shows that focus on topics such as cookery,gardening, travel and
home improvement - have witnessed anexplosion in recent
years.Ordinary Lifestyles explores how popular media texts bring
ideasabout taste and fashion to consumers, helping audiences
tofashion their lifestyles as well as defining what constitutes
anappropriate lifestyle for particular social groups.
Contemporaryexamples are used throughout, including Martha Stewart,
HouseDoctor, What Not to Wear, You Are What You Eat, CountryLiving
and brochures for gay and lesbian holiday promotions.The
contributors show that watching make-over television orcooking from
a celebrity chef's book are significant culturalpractices, through
which we work on our ideas about taste,status and identity. In
opening up the complex processes whichshape our taste and forge
individual and collective identities,lifestyle media demand our
serious attention, as well as ourviewing, reading and listening
pleasure.Ordinary Lifestyles is essential reading for students on
mediaand cultural studies courses, and for anyone intrigued by
theinfluence of the media on our day-to-day lives.Contributors:
David Bell, Manchester Metropolitan University; Frances Bonner,
University of Queensland, Australia; Steven Brown, Loughborough
University; Fan Carter, Kingston University; Stephen Duncombe,
Gallatin School of New York University, USA; David Dunn; Johannah
Fahey, Monash University, Australia; Elizabeth Bullen, Deakin
University, Australia; Jane Kenway, Monash University, Australia;
Robert Fish, University of Exeter; Danielle Gallegos, Murdoch
University, Australia; Mark Gibson; David B. Goldstein, University
of Tulsa, USA; Ruth Holliday, University of Leeds; Joanne Hollows,
Nottingham Trent University; Felicity Newman; Tim O'Sullivan, De
Montfort University; Elspeth Probyn; Rachel Russell, University of
Sydney, Australia; Lisa Taylor; Melissa Tyler; Gregory Woods,
Nottingham Trent University.
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