Emotional Lives : Dramas of Identity in an Age of Mass Media

Name: Emotional Lives
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521820141
Price: 18900 KES
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ISBN: 9780521820141

by E. Doyle McCarthy

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Format Hardback

Book Series Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction

ISBN-10 0521820146

ISBN-13 9780521820141

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 4th, 2017

Print length 184 Pages

Weight 428 grams

Dimensions 16.20 x 23.70 x 2.20 cms

Product Classification: Psychology

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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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