The Happiness Illusion (eBook, ePUB)

How the media sold us a fairytale
Redaktion: Hockley, Luke; Fadina, Nadi

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The West has never been more affluent yet the use of anti-depressants is on the increase to the extent that the World Health Organisation has declared it a major source of concern. How has this state of affairs come about and what can be done? Television and advertising media seem to know.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317579823
• Artikelnr.: 43122329

Autorenporträt

Luke Hockley PhD, is Research Professor of Media Analysis, at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. 　He is a practicing psychotherapist and is registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).　 Luke is joint Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Jungian Studies (IJJS) and a member of the Advisory Board for the journal Spring and lectures widely. www.lukehockley.com Nadi Fadina is a media entrepreneur and a managing partner in an international film fund. She is involved in a variety of arts and media related projects, both in profit and non-profit spheres. She teaches Film Business in the University of Bedfordshire, however, her academic interests outreach spheres of business and cover ideology, Russian fairytales, sexuality, politics, anthropology, and cinema. www.nadi-fadina.com

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Foreword. Introduction - Once upon a time
Nadi. Section One - There was a Prince/ss
Transnational fantasies of masculinity. Snow White and the Huntsman: the fairytale of gender and the female warrior. The second loss of androgyny: the fairytale of dualism. Section Two - The Quest, The Old Wise Helper and the Magical Object
Crumbling rejuvenation: archetype, embodiment and the `Aging Beauty Myth
. Finding the golden egg: illusions of happiness in an age of consumer capitalism. The self-knowledge industry and myths of happiness. The shadow of redemption: the Grail and the self-knowledge industry. Section Three - May All Your Wishes Come True
Engaging marriage: rom coms and fairytale endings. The myth of authentic self-actualisation: happiness, transformation and reality TV. A difficult task: Sarah Lund and the crime of individuated happiness.