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Historicizing Lifestyle: Mediating Taste, Consumption And Identity from the 1900s to 1970s - Couverture rigide

Bell, David

 
9780754644415: Historicizing Lifestyle: Mediating Taste, Consumption And Identity from the 1900s to 1970s
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ISBN 10 : 0754644413 ISBN 13 : 9780754644415
Editeur : Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

Lifestyles have a history, and lifestyle media is fundamentally implicated in this history. This original volume examines issues of taste, media and lifestyle from the 1900s to 1970s, providing a wealth of empirical evidence and debate from varied international perspectives. Including examples as diverse as 'Good Housekeeping' and 'Playboy', it explores the continuities and discontinuities between the past and present to provide a better understanding of the representation of lifestyle and its relationship to the self. The volume demonstrates how ideas about gender, nation and 'race' problematize taken-for-granted assumptions about lifestyle, with particular emphasis on the new middle classes in the US. The book also examines the role of advertising and marketing in mediating ideas about lifestyle, the role of material culture in the construction of cultural hierarchies and the positioning of social groups within wider cartographies of taste. The volume makes a significant contribution to this growing field and will interest academics and students in media and cultural studies, communication studies, cultural history and sociology.

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À propos de l'auteur

David Bell is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has written several books on Lifestyles and also Science, Technology and Culture. Joanne Hollows is Principal Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Nottingham Trent University. She has written several books on food and cultural studies, and feminism and popular culture.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0754644413
ISBN 13 
9780754644415
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
188
Éditeur
Hollows Joanne
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Personne responsable
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