Ordinary Lifestyles: Popular Media, Consumption, and Taste

by Joanne Hollows, David Bell

Overview

This book examines the post of subject leader in primary schools in the light of the four key areas defined by National Standards for Subject Leadership: strategic direction and development, teaching and learning, leading and managing staff, efficient and effective deployment of staff.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780335215508
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date:	09/28/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

David Bell teaches Cultural Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Joanne Hollows teaches Media and Cultural Studies at Nottingham Trent University, UK.

Table of Contents

1. Ordinary Lifestyles
SECTION I: MEDIA FORM AND INDUSTRY
2. From Television Lifestyle to Lifestyle Television
3. Whose Lifestyle is it Anyway?
4. Recipes for Living: Martha Stewart and the New American Subject
SECTION II: HOME FRONT
5. Home Truths?
6. Monoculture versus Multiculinarism: Trouble in the Aussie Kitchen
7. Cookbooks as Manuals of Taste
SECTION III: THE GREAT OUTDOORS
8. It was Beautiful Before You Changed it All: Class, Taste and the Transformative Aesthetics of the Garden Lifestyle Media
9. Entertaining Tourists: Television Holiday Programmes, Performance, and the Tourist Destination
10. Holidays of a Lifestyle: Representations of Pleasure in Gay and Lesbian Holiday Promotions
11. Countryside Formats and Ordinary Lifestyles
SECTION IV: LEARNING LIFESTYLES
12. It’s a Girl Thing: Teenage Magazines, Lifestyle and Consumer Culture
13. Gender, Childhood and Consumer Culture
14. A Taste for Science: Inventing the Young in the National Interest
SECTION V: WORK/LIFE BALANCING
15. Sabotage, Slack and the Zinester Search for Non-Alienated Labour
16. The Worst Things in the World: Life Events Checklists in Popular Stress Management Texts
17. Thinking Habits and the Ordering of Life
Bibliography