Smart Living
Lifestyle Media and Popular Expertise
©2008
Textbook
VIII,
169 Pages
Series:
Popular Culture and Everyday Life, Volume 15
Summary
What do the Fab Five from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, the Supernanny and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver all have in common? Lifestyle gurus are increasingly intruding on everyday life, directing ordinary people to see themselves as «projects» that can be «made over» through embracing an ethos of relentless self-improvement. Smart Living argues that they represent a new form of popular expertise sweeping the world. Written in a lively and accessible manner, the book examines this cult of expertise across a range of media and cultural sites and offers the reader a range of critical tools for understanding the recent emergence of this popular international phenomenon. Smart Living is a must-read for anyone interested in the relationship between popular media culture and contemporary social life.
Details
- Pages
- VIII, 169
- Publication Year
- 2008
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9780820486789
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9780820486772
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Massenkultur Fernsehserie Lebensstil Beeinflussung Lifestyle Popular Culture Sociology Cultural Study Aufsatzsammlung Cult Cultural site Media Reality-style tv Mass Media
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2008. VIII, 169 pp.
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