Lifestyle Media and the Formation of the Self

Raisborough, Jayne

ISBN 10: 0230242952 / ISBN 13: 9780230242951

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Inhaltsangabe:

Be the best you can be' urge self-help books and makeover TV shows, but what kind of self is imagined as needing a makeover and what kind of self is imagined as the happy result? Drawing on recent sociology and psychology, this book explores the function of slummy mummies, headless zombies and living autopsies to creating an idea of self.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: JAYNE RAISBOROUGH Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Science at the University of Brighton, UK. Her work explores the contextual and emotional dynamics of selfhood. She co-edited Risk, Identities and the Everyday and her current work explores lifestyle TV, media representations of death and middle-class sensibilities.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Lifestyle Media and the Formation of the Self
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: As New