Ordinary Lifestyles: Popular Media, Consumption and Taste

by Hollows Joanne, David J. Bell, Joanne Hollows

Book Overview

Lifestyle media - books, magazines, websites, radio andtelevision shows that focus on topics such as cookery,gardening, travel and home improvement - have witnessed anexplosion in recent years. Ordinary Lifestyles explores how popular media texts bring ideasabout taste and fashion to consumers, helping audiences tofashion their lifestyles as well as defining what constitutes anappropriate lifestyle for particular social groups. Contemporaryexamples...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0335215505
• ISBN13: 9780335215508
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Open University Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"