Lifestyle TV

Author : Laurie Ouellette (University of Minnesota, USA)

Paperback

Published : Monday 8 February 2016

ISBN : 9781138784857

Price : €29.24

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Lifestyle TV

by Laurie Ouellette (University of Minnesota, USA)

Paperback

08 Feb 2016

SOCIAL SCIENCE
>> Media Studies

€29.24

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From HGTV and the Food Network to Keeping Up With the Kardashians, television is preoccupied with the pursuit and exhibition of lifestyle. Lifestyle TV analyzes a burgeoning array of lifestyle formats on network and cable channels, from how-to and advice programs to hybrid reality entertainment built around the cultivation of the self as project, the ethics of everyday life, the mediation of style and taste, the regulation of health and the body, and the performance of identity and difference. Ouellette situates these formats historically, arguing that the lifestyling of television ultimately signals more than the television industry's turn to cost-cutting formats, niche markets, and specialized demographics. Rather, Ouellette argues that the surge of reality programming devoted to the achievement and display of lifestyle practices and choices must also be situated within broader socio-historical changes in capitalist democracies.

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