Emotional lives : dramas of identity in an age of mass media /

Emotional lives : dramas of identity in an age of mass media /

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Author / Creator:	McCarthy, E. Doyle, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017. ©2017
Description:	xiv, 167 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in emotion and social interaction second series Studies in emotion and social interaction. Second series.
Subject:	Emotions -- Social aspects. Identity (Psychology) Mass media -- Social aspects. Emotions -- Social aspects. Identity (Psychology) Mass media -- Social aspects.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11058747

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ISBN:	9780521820141 0521820146
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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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Call Number:	BF561 .M33 2017
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