Transformations: Identity Construction in Contemporary Culture
(Sprache: Englisch)
Self reinvention has become a preoccupation of contemporary culture. In the last decade, Hollywood made a 500-million-dollar bet on this idea with movies such as Multiplicity, Fight Club, eXistenZ, and Catch Me If You Can. Self reinvention marks the careers...
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Self reinvention has become a preoccupation of contemporary culture. In the last decade, Hollywood made a 500-million-dollar bet on this idea with movies such as Multiplicity, Fight Club, eXistenZ, and Catch Me If You Can. Self reinvention marks the careers of Madonna, Ani DiFranco, Martha Stewart, and Robin Williams. The Nike ads of LeBron James, the experiments of New Age spirituality, the mores of contemporary teen culture, and the obsession with "extreme makeovers" are all examples of our culture's fixation with change. In a time marked by plenitude, transformation is one of the few things these parties have in common.Although transformation is widely acknowledged as a defining characteristic of our culture, we have almost no studies on what it is or how it works. Transformations offers the first comprehensive and systematic view. It is an ethnography of the contemporary world.
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Sightings; Preface: Entertainment Is Dead, Long Live Transformation; IntroductionSection 1. Self-Transformation in a Popular Culture; Section 2. Traditional Transformations; Section 3. Status Transformations; Section 4. Modern Transformations; Section 5. Postmodern Transformations
Conclusion
Appendix: The Argument in a Single Page
Autoren-Porträt von Grant David McCracken
Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Grant David McCracken
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 22 Jahre
- 2008, 428 Seiten, 2 Abbildungen, Maße: 15,6 x 23,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: INDIANA UNIV PR
- ISBN-10: 0253219574
- ISBN-13: 9780253219572
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Englisch
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"A provocative, original, and thoughtful writer, someone who addresses topics that are central to our culture from a fresh vantage point, and someone who is willing to challenge orthodoxies-right, left, and center-which prevent theorists of other stripes from seeing what's in front of their eyes." Henry Jenkins, author of Convergence Culture
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