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

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.

List of contents

Introduction: A Better Everyday Is Waiting for You

1. Life-Style: The History of an Idea

2. Empires of the Everyday: Gender, Entertaining, and the Emergence of Lifestyle Media

3. Logics of Lifestyle: Cable, Class, and Domesticity on HGTV and the Food Network

4. The Trading Spaces Train Wreck: Blandness and Lifestyle Anxiety on TLC

5. Fantasies of Production: Digital Lifestyle Media and Women's Work

Conclusion: Lifestyle Unmoored

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Maureen E. Ryan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9781032569819
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3256981-9
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, United States of America, USA, Gender studies, gender groups, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society