Lifestyle Media in American Culture

Gender, Class, and the Politics of Ordinariness

Maureen E Ryan author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:12th Feb '18

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Lifestyle Media in American Culture cover

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. Drawing on the methodologies of cultural studies and feminist media studies, and built upon a series of case studies from newspapers, books, television programs, and blogs, it tracks the emergence of lifestyle’s discursive formation and shows its relevance in contemporary media culture. It is, in the broadest sense, about the role played by the explosion of lifestyle media texts in changing conceptualizations of selfhood and domestic life.

ISBN: 9781138206465

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 430g

216 pages