Lifestyle media and the formation of the self

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Titel: Lifestyle media and the formation of the self

Enthält: Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Being Scrooge-like: An Introduction to Lifestyle Media and the Formation of Self -- PART I INTRODUCING LIFESTYLE CITIZENS -- When Life is not Enough: Making More of the Self -- Makeover Culture: Becoming a Better Self -- PART II FRAMING THE SELF -- Living Autopsies: Visualising Responsibility -- Headless Zombies: Framing the Fat Body -- PART III BEFORE AND AFTER -- Being Worth It: The Deserving Self -- Repatriated and Repaired: Gender's Happy Ending -- References -- Index.

Beteiligte: Raisborough, Jayne [VerfasserIn]

Erschienen: Basingstoke [u.a.]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Ausgabe: 1. publ.

Umfang: VIII, 185 S.; Ill; 23 cm

Sprache: Englisch

ISBN: 9780230242951; 0230242952

RVK-Notation: AP 14350 : Kommunikation und Kultur

Schlagwörter: Massenmedien > Lebensstil > Selbstverwirklichung

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Beschreibung: ""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"--

""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"--

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