Lifestyle Media in American Culture - Gender, Class, and the Politics of Ordinariness

Informationen zum Autor 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: A Better Everyday Is Waiting for You1. Life-Style: The History of an Idea2. Empires of the Everyday: Gender! Entertaining! and the Emergence of Lifestyle Media3. Logics of Lifestyle: Cable! Class! and Domesticity on HGTV and the Food Network4. The Trading Spaces Train Wreck: Blandness and Lifestyle Anxiety on TLC5. Fantasies of Production: Digital Lifestyle Media and Women's WorkConclusion: Lifestyle Unmoored

Product details

• Authors: Maureen E. Ryan, Maureen E. (Northern Illinois University Ryan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781138206465
• ISBN: 978-1-138-20646-5
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media; Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, History, Media Studies, Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Regional / International studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Media studies: TV and society