Dreams of emotional continuity

Reading and relating in Malous bokklubb

Bibliographic Data

ID12599481
AuthorsLena Karlsson (0000-0002-7406-7836, Malmö University, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume14
Issue2
Pages163-177
Publication date2011-04-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1367-5494 • E-ISSN: 1460-3551
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1367549410377244
OpenAlexW2053979976
LanguageEN
References cited27

Presently there is an abundance of sites, across media, promoting acts of communal reading (televised book clubs, web rings, publishers’ book discussion questions, etc.). This article forms a case study of what usages of reading and concurrently what reading subjects are framed in the Swedish televised book club, Malous bokklubb ( Malou’s Book Club), modelled on Oprah’s Book Club in the USA and Richard and Judy’s Book Club in the UK. The main reading protocol underwritten by various textual fields in the show is the one of rich emotional continuity between the reading subject and its textual others. The show partakes in a middlebrow ‘women’s culture’ whose main message is that women, across differences, have something in common and that the stories of almost all others can be used to work on the self

Aesthetics · Art · Club · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Middlebrow · Reading (process · Sociology · Subject (documents · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies

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