[ecrea] New Book: 'Exposing Lifestyle Television'

> Colleagues may be interested in this new book:
>
> 'Exposing Lifestyle Television: The Big Reveal'
> edited by Gareth Palmer, University of Salford, UK. (Ashgate)
>
> 'Exposing Lifestyle Television succeeds in revealing the 
> anxiety-fraught class
> politics that churn beneath the surface of global television's most 
> serviceable
> genre. Written in clear, uncompromising language, this collection is a must-
> read for anyone who seeks to better comprehend Lifestyle 
> Television's logic of
> transformation and its promise of an endlessly improvable self.'
> Dana Heller, Old Dominion University, USA
>
> In the last decade lifestyle television has become one of the most dominant
> television genres, with certain shows now global brands with formats 
> exploited
> by producers all over the world. What unites these programmes is their belief
> that the human subject has a flexible, malleable identity that can be changed
> within television-friendly frameworks. In contrast to the talk shows of the
> eighties and nineties where modest transformation was discussed as an ideal,
> advances in technology, combined with changing tastes and demands of
> viewers, have created an appetite for dramatic transformations.
>
> This volume presents case studies from across the lifestyle genre, 
> considering
> a variety of themes but with a shared understanding of the self as 
> an evolving
> project, driven by enterprise. Written by an international team of 
> scholars, the
> collection will appeal to sociologists of culture and consumption, 
> as well as to
> scholars of media studies and media production throughout the world.
>
> http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=10680&edition_id=11431

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