Ordinary Lifestyles

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-335-22419-7
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch

Lifestyle media – books, magazines, websites, radio and

television shows that focus on topics such as cookery,

gardening, travel and home improvement – have witnessed an

explosion in recent years.

Ordinary Lifestyles explores how popular media texts bring ideas

about taste and fashion to consumers, helping audiences to

fashion their lifestyles as well as defining what constitutes an

appropriate lifestyle for particular social groups. Contemporary

examples are used throughout, including Martha Stewart, House

Doctor, What Not to Wear, You Are What You Eat, Country

Living and brochures for gay and lesbian holiday promotions.

The contributors show that watching make-over television or

cooking from a celebrity chef’s book are significant cultural

practices, through which we work on our ideas about taste,

status and identity. In opening up the complex processes which

shape our taste and forge individual and collective identities,

lifestyle media demand our serious attention, as well as our

viewing, reading and listening pleasure.

Ordinary Lifestyles is essential reading for students on media

and cultural studies courses, and for anyone intrigued by the

influence of the media on our day-to-day lives.

Contributors: David Bell, Manchester Metropolitan University; Frances Bonner, University of Queensland, Australia; Steven Brown, Loughborough University; Fan Carter, Kingston University; Stephen Duncombe, Gallatin School of New York University, USA; David Dunn; Johannah Fahey, Monash University, Australia; Elizabeth Bullen, Deakin University, Australia; Jane Kenway, Monash University, Australia; Robert Fish, University of Exeter; Danielle Gallegos, Murdoch University, Australia; Mark Gibson; David B. Goldstein, University of Tulsa, USA; Ruth Holliday, University of Leeds; Joanne Hollows, Nottingham Trent University; Felicity Newman; Tim O’Sullivan, De Montfort University; Elspeth Probyn; Rachel Russell, University of Sydney, Australia; Lisa Taylor; Melissa Tyler; Gregory Woods, Nottingham Trent University.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bell, David

Hollows, Joanne

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Ordinary Lifestyles

SECTION I: MEDIA FORM AND INDUSTRY

2. From Television Lifestyle to Lifestyle Television

3. Whose Lifestyle is it Anyway?

4. Recipes for Living: Martha Stewart and the New American Subject

SECTION II: HOME FRONT

5. Home Truths?

6. Monoculture versus Multiculinarism: Trouble in the Aussie Kitchen

7. Cookbooks as Manuals of Taste

SECTION III: THE GREAT OUTDOORS

8. It was Beautiful Before You Changed it All: Class, Taste and the Transformative Aesthetics of the Garden Lifestyle Media

9. Entertaining Tourists: Television Holiday Programmes, Performance, and the Tourist Destination

10. Holidays of a Lifestyle: Representations of Pleasure in Gay and Lesbian Holiday Promotions

11. Countryside Formats and Ordinary Lifestyles

SECTION IV: LEARNING LIFESTYLES

12. It’s a Girl Thing: Teenage Magazines, Lifestyle and Consumer Culture

13. Gender, Childhood and Consumer Culture

14. A Taste for Science: Inventing the Young in the National Interest

SECTION V: WORK/LIFE BALANCING

15. Sabotage, Slack and the Zinester Search for Non-Alienated Labour

16. The Worst Things in the World: Life Events Checklists in Popular Stress Management Texts

17. Thinking Habits and the Ordering of Life

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

David Bell teaches Cultural Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. His recent publications, as author or editor, include The Sexual Citizen, Cyberculture: the Key Concepts, City of Quarters, and Science, Technology and Culture.

Joanne Hollows teaches Media and Cultural Studies at Nottingham Trent University. She is the author of Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture and co-author of Food and Cultural Studies.