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Feeding Work
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Good Food Guide
Good Housekeeping
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housekeeping
Lifestyle Media
Lifestyle Sports
London's Tottenham Court Road
Man About Town
Mansard Gallery
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michelin
Michelin Tyres
Middle Class Femininity
Middle Class Lifestyle
Negro Digest
Pneumatic Tyres
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Postmodern Consumer Culture
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Restaurant Guide
Scuba
Scuba Diving
Skin Diver
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Supreme Life
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Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754644415
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Mar 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Lifestyles have a history, and lifestyle media is fundamentally implicated in this history. This original volume examines issues of taste, media and lifestyle from the 1900s to 1970s, providing a wealth of empirical evidence and debate from varied international perspectives. Including examples as diverse as 'Good Housekeeping' and 'Playboy', it explores the continuities and discontinuities between the past and present to provide a better understanding of the representation of lifestyle and its relationship to the self. The volume demonstrates how ideas about gender, nation and 'race' problematize taken-for-granted assumptions about lifestyle, with particular emphasis on the new middle classes in the US. The book also examines the role of advertising and marketing in mediating ideas about lifestyle, the role of material culture in the construction of cultural hierarchies and the positioning of social groups within wider cartographies of taste. The volume makes a significant contribution to this growing field and will interest academics and students in media and cultural studies, communication studies, cultural history and sociology.
David Bell is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has written several books on Lifestyles and also Science, Technology and Culture. Joanne Hollows is Principal Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Nottingham Trent University. She has written several books on food and cultural studies, and feminism and popular culture.
