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Consumerism on TV

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Consumerism on TV book

Popular Media from the 1950s to the Present

Consumerism on TV

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Consumerism on TV book

Popular Media from the 1950s to the Present
ByAlison Hulme
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2015
eBook Published 9 March 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315573724
Pages 184 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315573724
SubjectsHumanities, Social Sciences
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Hulme, A. (2015). Consumerism on TV. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315573724

Presenting case studies of well-known shows including Will and Grace, Birds of a Feather, Sex and the City and Absolutely Fabulous, as well as 'reality' television, this book examines the transformations that have occurred in consumer society since its appearance and the ways in which these have been constructed and represented in popular media imagery. With analyses of the ways in which consumerism has played out in society, Consumerism on TV highlights specific aspects of the changing nature of consumerism by way of considerations of gender, sexuality and class, as well as less definable changes such as those to do with the celebration of ostentatious greed or the righteousness of the ’ethical’ shopper. With attention to the highly delineated consumer field in which ’shopping’ as an embedded practice of everyday life is caught between escapism and politics, authors explore a variety of themes, such as the extent to which consumerism has become embedded in forging identity, the positing of consumerism as a form of activism, the visibility of the gay male consumer and invisibility of the lesbian consumer, and the (re)stratification of consumer types along class lines. An engaging invitation to consider whether the positioning of consumerism through on-screen depictions is indicative of a new type of non-philosophical politics of 'choice' - a form of marketised, (a)political pragmatism - this book will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and cultural and media studies, with interests in class, consumption and gender.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|20 pages

Blurring Fiction with Reality: American Television and Consumerism in the 1950s

BySusan Nacey

chapter 2|14 pages

From ‘Make do and Mend’ to ‘Your Country Needs You to Spend’: Constructing the Consumer in Late-Modernity

ByAlison Hulme

chapter 3|18 pages

Birds of a Feather Shop Together: Conspicuous Consumption and the Imaging of the 1980’s Essex Girl

ByRachel Rye

chapter 4|18 pages

Absolutely Ethical?: Irony, Subversion and Prescience in Absolutely Fabulous

BySusie Khamis

chapter 5|18 pages

The ‘Good Life’ on the Small Screen: Ethical Consumption, Food Television and Green Makeovers

ByTania Lewis

chapter 6|20 pages

Consuming the Lesbian Body: Post-Feminist Heteroflexible Subjectivities in Sex and the City and The L Word Ella Fegitz

chapter 7|18 pages

Effeminacy and Expertise, Excess and Equality: Gay Best Friends as Consumers and Commodities in Contemporary Television

BySusie Khamis, Anthony Lambert

chapter 8|20 pages

‘A Thousand Diamonds’: Gypsies, Romanies and Travellers and ‘Transgressive Consumerism’ in Reality Television

ByEmma Bell

chapter 9|16 pages

Shopping for Identity: Post-Feminist Flâneuses in Sex and the City and In the Cut

ByLisa French
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