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Oprah Winfrey and the glamour of misery : an essay on popular culture
- Title
- Oprah Winfrey and the glamour of misery : an essay on popular culture / Eva Illouz.
- Author
- Illouz, Eva, 1961-
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2003.
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Details
- Description
- 300 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-291) and indexes.
- Contents
- Introduction : Oprah Winfrey and the study of culture -- The success of a self-failed woman -- Everyday life as the uncanny : The Oprah Winfrey show as a new cultural genre -- Pain and circuses -- The hypertext of identity -- Suffering and self-help as global forms of identity -- The sources and resources of The Oprah Winfrey show -- Toward an impure critique of popular culture -- Conclusion : ordinary people, extraordinary television.
- Call Number
- Sc E 04-615
- ISBN
- 0231118120 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0231118139 (paper : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002034782
- OCLC
- 50598334
- Author
- Illouz, Eva, 1961-
- Title
- Oprah Winfrey and the glamour of misery : an essay on popular culture / Eva Illouz.
- Imprint
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2003.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-291) and indexes.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 04-615