Maureen E. Ryan

Lifestyle Media in American Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Gender, Class, and the Politics of Ordinariness

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the emergence of "lifestyle" in the US, first as a term that has become an organizing principle for the self and for the structure of everyday life, and later as a pervasive form of media that encompasses a variety of domestic and self-improvement genres, from newspaper columns to design blogs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315464954
• Artikelnr.: 54116148

Autorenporträt

Maureen E. Ryan is an instructor in media and cinema studies at DePaul University, USA. She is the co-editor, with Jessalynn Keller, of the collection Emergent Feminisms: Complicating a Postfeminist Media Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A Better Everyday Is Waiting for You
1. Life-Style: The History of an Idea
2. Empires of the Everyday: Gender, Entertaining, and the Emergence of
Lifestyle Media
3. Logics of Lifestyle: Cable, Class, and Domesticity on HGTV and the Food
Network
4. The Trading Spaces Train Wreck: Blandness and Lifestyle Anxiety on TLC
5. Fantasies of Production: Digital Lifestyle Media and Women's Work
Conclusion: Lifestyle Unmoored