| Lifestyle Media in American Culture: Gender, Class, and the Politics of Ordinariness Contributor(s): Ryan, Maureen E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138206466 ISBN-13: 9781138206465 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Social Science | Gender Studies - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Series: Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media |
| Physical Information: 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |