Lifestyle TV (Hardcover)

From HGTV and the Food Network to Keeping Up With the Kardashians, television is preoccupied with the pursuit and exhibition of lifestyle. Lifestyle TV analyzes a burgeoning array of lifestyle formats on network and cable channels, from how-to and advice programs to hybrid reality entertainment built around the cultivation of the self as project, the ethics of everyday life, the mediation of style and taste, the regulation of health and the body, and the performance of identity and "difference." Ouellette situates these formats historically, arguing that the lifestyling of television ultimately signals more than the television industry's turn to cost-cutting formats, niche markets, and specialized demographics. Rather, Ouellette argues that the surge of reality programming devoted to the achievement and display of lifestyle practices and choices must also be situated within broader socio-historical changes in capitalist democracies.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Television Guidebooks
Release date:	February 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Laurie Ouellette
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	194
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-78484-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Television Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies
LSN:	1-138-78484-2
Barcode:	9781138784840

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