There is increasing talk, as we head for the last decade of the millenium, of the post-industrial leisure society. Production is geared more and more to the consumer needs of a highly mobile and affluent society, which is largely unaware that its most intimate moments and private pleasures in consumer culture are constructions of a powerful and manipulative consumer market. Consumption, Identity and Style sets out to explore the role of consumer culture in the contemporary political economy. The relation of the individual to the world of leisure is not a simple one of self-determination: style, subjectivity, and the shifting identity of the contemporary consumer carry within them a set of meanings which work, through our consciousness and our everyday perceptions, on the politics of the age. Essays on the world of fashion and the foodies, on the market's creation of popular reading or holidaymaking, on consumption in popular music, on television, and the dynamics of everyday life, offer detailed interpretations of our most accepted rituals and practices.
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This is a book about the meaning of our lives as consumers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
new television industries, connoisseur consumer, holiday firms, holiday industry, soft cell, air tours, romance form Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United Kingdom, Henley Centre, New York, United States, Jon Savage, Thomas Cook, Billy Butlin, Kegan Paul, The Guardian, Third World, Blue Sky, Second World War, Keynote Report, Live Aid, Paul Morley, Director General, Rank Travel, Raymond Williams, Simon Frith, American Express, Barry Hearn, British Air Tours, Budget Travel, Cable Authority, First World War New!
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- Postmodern Culture (Pluto Classics) by Hal Foster on page 37, page 170, and page 185
- The Uses of Literacy (U.S.-Third World Policy Perspectives) by Richard Hoggart on page 15, and page 151
- Introduction to Contemporary Cultural Studies by David Punter on page 37, and page 73
- Towards a New Architecture (Dover Architecture) by Le Corbusier on page 49, and page 56
- Consuming Passions by Judith Williamson on page 36, and page 137
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- Cultures of Consumption (Comedia) by Frank Mort on 5 pages
- Cultures of Consumption (Comedia) by Frank Mort on 5 pages
- The Unmanageable Consumer: Contemporary Consumption and its Fragmentations by Yiannis Gabriel in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The World of Consumption: The Material and Cultural Revisited (Economics as Social Theory) by Ben Fine in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Consumption and Everyday Life (Culture, Media and Identities series) by Hugh Mackay on page 146, and page 297
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