基本説明
Shows that watching make-over television or cooking from a celebrity chef's book are significant cultural practices, through which we work on our ideas about taste, status and identity.
Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Ordinary LifestylesSECTION I: MEDIA FORM AND INDUSTRY2. From Television Lifestyle to Lifestyle Television3. Whose Lifestyle is it Anyway?4. Recipes for Living: Martha Stewart and the New American SubjectSECTION II: HOME FRONT5. Home Truths? 6. Monoculture versus Multiculinarism: Trouble in the Aussie Kitchen7. Cookbooks as Manuals of TasteSECTION III: THE GREAT OUTDOORS8. It was Beautiful Before You Changed it All: Class, Taste and the Transformative Aesthetics of the Garden Lifestyle Media9. Entertaining Tourists: Television Holiday Programmes, Performance, and the Tourist Destination10. Holidays of a Lifestyle: Representations of Pleasure in Gay and Lesbian Holiday Promotions11. Countryside Formats and Ordinary LifestylesSECTION IV: LEARNING LIFESTYLES12. It's a Girl Thing: Teenage Magazines, Lifestyle and Consumer Culture13. Gender, Childhood and Consumer Culture14. A Taste for Science: Inventing the Young in the National InterestSECTION V: WORK/LIFE BALANCING15. Sabotage, Slack and the Zinester Search for Non-Alienated Labour16. The Worst Things in the World: Life Events Checklists in Popular Stress Management Texts17. Thinking Habits and the Ordering of LifeBibliographyNER(01): WOW
