Smart Living: Lifestyle Media and Popular Expertise by Miller, Toby

Smart Living: Lifestyle Media and Popular Expertise

What do the Fab Five from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, the Supernanny and celebrity chef...
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Author: Toby Miller
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Smart Living: Lifestyle Media and Popular Expertise by Miller, Toby

Smart Living: Lifestyle Media and Popular Expertise

$128.35

Smart Living: Lifestyle Media and Popular Expertise

$128.35
Author: Toby Miller
Format: Paperback
Language: English
What do the Fab Five from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, the Supernanny and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver all have in common? Lifestyle gurus are increasingly intruding on everyday life, directing ordinary people to see themselves as projects that can be made over through embracing an ethos of relentless self-improvement. Smart Living argues that they represent a new form of popular expertise sweeping the world. Written in a lively and accessible manner, the book examines this cult of expertise across a range of media and cultural sites and offers the reader a range of critical tools for understanding the recent emergence of this popular international phenomenon. Smart Living is a must-read for anyone interested in the relationship between popular media culture and contemporary social life.

Author: Toby Miller, Tania Lewis
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: 02/06/2008
Pages: 169
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9780820486772


Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2008 pg. 182

About the Author
The Author: Tania Lewis is Senior Research Fellow in Sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Her work in the fields of media and cultural studies has been published in Media, Culture and Society, Television and New Media, Cultural StudiesCritical Methodologies, Continuum, and the European Journal of Cultural Studies.


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