Emotional Lives : Dramas of Identity in an Age of Mass Media
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction
ISBN-10
0521526337
ISBN-13
9780521526333
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 20th, 2018
Print length
184 Pages
Weight
350 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
PsychologySocial, group or collective psychologyPsychology: emotions
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Emotional Lives offers a cultural study of the growing importance of people's emotions in public life, and the role of the mass media in shaping people's relationships, identities, and emotions. The author draws examples from leisure, sports, entertainment, politics, and today's public forms of grief and mourning.
Emotional Lives explores the changes in emotional cultures that have taken place during the last half century and continue to affect people's identities today. These changes are driven by the culture of consumerism in contemporary post-industrial society and by the emergence of new ideas about public and private life in a time when media culture generates new forms of social relationships and deep personal attachments to celebrity figures. McCarthy shows that people are drawn to public life, not only for entertainment and pleasure but also for its dramas, for memorializing events like disasters, acts of violence, and victimhood. McCarthy's cultural-sociological approach provides new insights about emotions as 'social things' and reveals how today's mass media is an important force for cultural change, including changes in people's relationships, identities, and emotions.
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