Buch, Englisch, 177 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 368 g
Consumer Markets and Home-Making
Buch, Englisch, 177 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 368 g
ISBN: 978-1-137-57897-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
The authors apply an empirically grounded, critical perspective to the study of television to reveal how people use the program in their everyday lives. The emphasis on everyday uses and meanings combines creatively with understanding the program theoretically, textually and in terms of its production structures. This position challenges framings of the popular lifestyle and factual television genre that has been dominated by a neoliberal or governmentality perspective for many years.
Presented by British designer and writer, Kevin McCloud, Grand Designs follows the progress of home owners as they embark on design, renovation and building projects at almost always dizzying scales of endeavour. Understanding the program as both a text to analyse and a site ofmaterial impact, the book draws on interviews with production members, home renovators, building practitioners and audiences, as well as references to associated media formats to provide contextual depth to the analysis. The authors argue that, as a cultural object, the program is both shaped by and enacts social discourses of home-making, design value and taste. Navigating public, commercial and promotional logics, Grand Designs sparks new forms of cultural production and consumer markets.
Zielgruppe
Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Marketing
Weitere Infos & Material
1. Introduction.- 2. Production: visual style, narrative structure, and the viewer renovator.- 3. Home: Ideas of home, and the work of home-making.- 4. Consumption: the ethical and the extravagant.- 5. Innovation: from represented novelty to transformation in practice.- 6. Markets: creating value in media industries and consumption cultures.