Consumption, identity, and style : marketing, meanings, and the packaging of pleasure

Author(s)

• Tomlinson, Alan

Bibliographic Information

Consumption, identity, and style : marketing, meanings, and the packaging of pleasure

edited by Alan Tomlinson

Routledge, 1990

• : hard
• : pbk

Note

"A COMEDIA book."

Includes bibliographies and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hard ISBN 9780415011501

Description

Explores the role of consumer culture in the post-industrial leisure society - from fashion and foodies to mass-market fiction and popular music. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of popular culture, leisure studies, sociology, art and design studies.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780415011518

Description

First Published in 1990. This is a book about the meaning of our lives as consumers. It is about leisure, lifestyle, and markets in today's consumer culture. In 1986 one measure of people's use of time in Britain identified television watching as the major activity for both men and women outside paid employment and sleeping.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: Consumer culture and the aura of the commodity PART ONE Trends in consumption and leisure 2 Marketing dreams: The political elements of style 3 Home fixtures: Doing-it-yourself in a privatized world PART TWO The visual media and consumption 4 Television and citizenship: In defence of public broadcasting 5 Innocence and manipulation: Censorship, consumption, and freedom in 1980s Britain PART THREE Consumer culture(s) and the market-some case studies 6 What's next?: Fashion, foodies, and the illusion of freedom 7 Mills and Boon: The marketing of moonshine 8 Tainted love: The influence of male homosexuality and sexual divergence on pop music and culture since the war 9 Frankie said: But what did they mean? 10 Making popular music: The consumer as producer 11 'If you can't stand the heat get off the beach': The United Kingdom holiday business 12 Holidays for all: Popular movements, collective leisure, and the pleasure industry

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Details

• NCID: BA10057212
• ISBN:
  • 0415011507
  • 0415011515
• LCCN: 89006317
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 244 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC8 : 365.8
  • LCC : HF5415.32
  • DC20 : 658.8
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Consumers
  • LCSH : Marketing