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Author:   Alison Hulme ,  Professor C. Richard King
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9781472447562

ISBN 10:   1472447565
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   28 October 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Preface by Alison Hulme 1. Blurring Fiction with Reality: American Television and Consumerism in the 1950s Susan Nacey 2. From ‘Make do and Mend’ to ‘Your Country Needs You to Spend’: Constructing the Consumer in Late-Modernity Alison Hulme 3. Birds of a Feather Shop Together: Conspicuous Consumption and the Imaging of the 1980’s Essex Girl Rachel Rye 4. Absolutely Ethical?: Irony, Subversion and Prescience in Absolutely Fabulous Susie Khamis 5. The ‘Good Life’ on the Small Screen: Ethical Consumption, Food Television and Green Makeovers Tania Lewis 6. Consuming the Lesbian Body: Post-Feminist Heteroflexible Subjectivities in Sex and the City and The L Word Ella Fegitz 7. Effeminacy and Expertise, Excess and Equality: Gay Best Friends as Consumers and Commodities in Contemporary Television Susie Khamis and Anthony Lambert 8. ‘A Thousand Diamonds’: Gypsies, Romanies and Travellers and ‘Transgressive Consumerism’ in Reality Television Emma Bell 9. Shopping for Identity: Post-Feminist Flâneuses in Sex and the City and In the Cut Lisa French Index

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'This is an innovative collection, based on original research and drawing on different countries and different times, that maps the social meaning of consumerism. It goes beyond the false consciousness vs. authentic self-expression debate to say new things about a central feature of contemporary society.' James Curran, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

'This is an innovative collection, based on original research and drawing on different countries and different times, that maps the social meaning of consumerism. It goes beyond the false consciousness vs. authentic self-expression debate to say new things about a central feature of contemporary society.' James Curran, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK 'Surveying the field from Essex girls to haute couture fashionistas, and from post-war austerity to postmodern extravagance, this collection opens up an impressive range of perceptive debates on how popular television genres (comedies, dramas, lifestyle shows and beyond) have represented the attractions, contradictions, pleasures and pitfalls of consumer society. This is a volume full of astute insights, thoughtful perspectives and constructive provocations.' Andy Medhurst, University of Sussex, UK

"’This is an innovative collection, based on original research and drawing on different countries and different times, that maps the social meaning of consumerism. It goes beyond the ""false consciousness vs. authentic self-expression"" debate to say new things about a central feature of contemporary society.' James Curran, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK ’Surveying the field from Essex girls to haute couture fashionistas, and from post-war austerity to postmodern extravagance, this collection opens up an impressive range of perceptive debates on how popular television genres (comedies, dramas, lifestyle shows and beyond) have represented the attractions, contradictions, pleasures and pitfalls of consumer society. This is a volume full of astute insights, thoughtful perspectives and constructive provocations.’ Andy Medhurst, University of Sussex, UK"

Author Information

Alison Hulme lectures in the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is also a regular guest lecturer in Chinese Politics and Development at Goldsmiths College, University of London and University College Dublin. She was the 2014 Ron Lister fellow at the University of Otago, New Zealand and is the author of On the Commodity Trail: The Journey of a Bargain Store Product from East to West.

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