Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
352
Utgivningsdatum
2003-11-01
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Columbia University Press
Originalspråk
English
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225 x 150 x 20 mm
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440 g
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1
ISBN
9780231118132

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Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery (häftad)

Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery

An Essay on Popular Culture

av Eva Illouz
Häftad Engelska, 2003-11-01
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Oprah Winfrey is the protagonist of the story to be told here, but this book has broader intentions, begins Eva Illouz in this original examination of how and why this talk show host has become a pervasive symbol in American culture. Unlike studies of talk shows that decry debased cultural standards and impoverished political consciousness, Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery asks us to rethink our perceptions of culture in general and popular culture in particular. At a time when crises of morality, beliefs, value systems, and personal worth dominate both public and private spheres, Oprah's emergence as a cultural form-the Oprah persona-becomes clearer, as she successfully reiterates some of our most pressing moral questions. Drawing on nearly one hundred show transcripts; a year and a half of watching the show regularly; and analysis of magazine articles, several biographies, O Magazine, Oprah Book Club novels, self-help manuals promoted on the show, and hundreds of discussions on the Oprah Winfrey Web site, Illouz takes the Oprah industry seriously, revealing it to be a multilayered "textual structure" that initiates, stages, and performs narratives of suffering and self-improvement that resonate with a wide audience and challenge traditional models of cultural analysis. This book looks closely at Oprah's method and her message, and in the process reconsiders popular culture and the tools we use to understand it.
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We should commend Illouz in her willingness to blaze a new, and certainly untested path in anthropological writing. -- Seth Jacobs Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Outstanding... its author digs deeper into her subject matter than any other researcher yet to address Oprah. -- David W. Park Journal of Communication

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Eva Illouz is a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (University of California Press) and The Culture of Capitalism (in Hebrew).

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: Oprah Winfrey and the Sociology of Culture 2. The Success of a Self-Failed Woman 3. Everyday Life as the Uncanny: The Oprah Winfrey Show as a New Cultural Genre 4. Pain and Circuses 5. The Hypertext of Identity 6. Suffering and Self-Help as Global Forms of Identity 7. The Sources and Resources of The Oprah Winfrey Show 8. Toward an Impure Critique of Popular Culture 9. Conclusion: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Television Notes Bibliography Index