Maureen Ryan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624838 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maureen Ryan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maureen |
| FAMILY NAME | Ryan |
| SIGNATURE | RYAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University, Illinois, USA, |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Logics of Lifestyle and the Rise of Scripps Networks, 1994–2010
This article examines the “turn to lifestyle” in the longstanding genres of how-to and domestic advice programming, which began in 1994 with the launch of Home & Garden Television (HGTV) and the Food Network. It frames lifestyle's spread across the growing cable television system in the late 1990s and 2000s as the result of industrial conditions that favored the growth and consolidation of cable networks, as well as growing cultural interest in “…
Entertaining Fantasies
This article considers the ways in which lifestyle media during the 1980s expressed a longing for a particular form of social life that was passing as neoliberalism presented increasingly consumer-oriented and individualistic modes of life. It frames Martha Stewart’s lifestyle books, and other lifestyle television programs in the 1980s, as predecessors of the logic of the makeover and reality programming discussed by current media scholars. In pa…
Capitalism and the Carnival Character
Every social epoch fosters certain distinctive kinds of 'social character' - a widely shared constellation of values and self-identity. Today, as the crises of capitalism become more and more evident, we have also witnessed the emergence and diffusion of the 'carnival character' for whom public rituals of moral transgression express a critique of capitalist culture - and at the same time, the transformation of political critique into a profitable…
Barbara Kingsolver's Lowfat Fiction
Marilynne Robinson's "Housekeeping"
Flannery O'Connor
Innocence and Estrangement in the Fiction of Jean Stafford
Capitalism and the Carnival Character
Every social epoch fosters certain distinctive kinds of 'social character' - a widely shared constellation of values and self-identity. Today, as the crises of capitalism become more and more evident, we have also witnessed the emergence and diffusion of the 'carnival character' for whom public rituals of moral transgression express a critique of capitalist culture - and at the same time, the transformation of political critique into a profitable…
Innocence and Estrangement in the Fiction of Jean Stafford
Flannery O'Connor
Marilynne Robinson's "Housekeeping"
Barbara Kingsolver's Lowfat Fiction
Capitalism and the Carnival Character
Every social epoch fosters certain distinctive kinds of 'social character' - a widely shared constellation of values and self-identity. Today, as the crises of capitalism become more and more evident, we have also witnessed the emergence and diffusion of the 'carnival character' for whom public rituals of moral transgression express a critique of capitalist culture - and at the same time, the transformation of political critique into a profitable…
Logics of Lifestyle and the Rise of Scripps Networks, 1994–2010
This article examines the “turn to lifestyle” in the longstanding genres of how-to and domestic advice programming, which began in 1994 with the launch of Home & Garden Television (HGTV) and the Food Network. It frames lifestyle's spread across the growing cable television system in the late 1990s and 2000s as the result of industrial conditions that favored the growth and consolidation of cable networks, as well as growing cultural interest in “…
Entertaining Fantasies
This article considers the ways in which lifestyle media during the 1980s expressed a longing for a particular form of social life that was passing as neoliberalism presented increasingly consumer-oriented and individualistic modes of life. It frames Martha Stewart’s lifestyle books, and other lifestyle television programs in the 1980s, as predecessors of the logic of the makeover and reality programming discussed by current media scholars. In pa…
Art (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works)