Transformations
Identity Construction in Contemporary Culture
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Word Count
96,000 words, Guess
Page Count
384 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archivetransformationsi0000mccr
- Internet Archivetransformationsi00unse
- ISBN-100253219574
- ISBN-139780253219572
- Library of Congress Control Number2007035717
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number171049097
- Better World Books9780253219572
- Open LibraryOL10228416M
Classifications
- LCCHM1051.M33 2008
- LCCHM1051 . M33 2008
Description
"Self reinvention has become a preoccupation of contemporary culture. In the last decade, Hollywood made a 500-million-dollar bet on this idea with movies such asMultiplicity, Fight Club, eXistenZandCatch Me If You Can. Self reinvention marks the careers of Madonna, Ani DiFranco, Martha Stewart, and Robin Williams. The Nike ads of LeBron James, the experiments of New Age spirituality, the mores of contemporary teen culture, and the obsession with "extreme makeovers" are all examples of our culture's fixation with change. In a time marked by plenitude, transformation is one of the few things these parties have in common. Although transformation is widely acknowledged as a defining characteristic of our culture, we have almost no studies on what it is or how it works. Transformationsoffers the first comprehensive and systematic view. It is an ethnography of the contemporary world."--Book cover.
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