Transformations
Subtitle: Identity Construction in Contemporary Culture
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: May 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780253219572
Subjects: Cultural studies; Social theory; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Media Studies; Popular Culture - General
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.