ABSTRACT

First Published in 1990. This is a book about the meaning of our lives as consumers. It is about leisure, lifestyle, and markets in today’s consumer culture. In 1986 one measure of people’s use of time in Britain identified television watching as the major activity for both men and women outside paid employment and sleeping.

chapter 1|27 pages

Introduction

part |1 pages

PART ONE Trends in consumption and leisure

chapter 2|11 pages

Marketing dreams

chapter 3|13 pages

Home fixtures

part |1 pages

PART TWO The visual media and consumption

chapter 4|16 pages

Television and citizenship

chapter 5|11 pages

Innocence and manipulation

part |1 pages

PART THREE Consumer culture(s) and the market—some case studies

chapter 6|12 pages

What’s next?

chapter 7|9 pages

Mills and Boon

chapter 8|13 pages

Tainted love

chapter 9|9 pages

Frankie said

chapter 10|6 pages

Making popular music

chapter 12|14 pages

Holidays for all