{"product_id":"transformations-identity-construction-in-contemporary-culture-9780253219572","title":"Transformations: Identity Construction in Contemporary Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eSelf 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 as \u003ci\u003eMultiplicity, Fight Club, eXistenZ, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCatch Me If You Can.\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough transformation is widely acknowledged as a defining characteristic of our culture, we have almost no studies on what it is or how it works. \u003ci\u003eTransformations\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first comprehensive and systematic view. It is an ethnography of the contemporary world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Grant David McCracken\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Indiana University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/12\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.32w x 0.97d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780253219572\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrant McCracken is a research affiliate of the Comparative Media Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is author of \u003ci\u003eCulture and Consumption\u003c\/i\u003e (IUP, 1990), \u003ci\u003eCulture and Consumption II\u003c\/i\u003e (IUP, 2005), \u003ci\u003eFlock and Flow\u003c\/i\u003e (IUP, 2006), \u003ci\u003eThe Long Interview, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePlenitude.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in Rowayton, Connecticut.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40490339860595,"sku":"9.78025E+12","price":27.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_710bd31f-3444-49ff-99be-8b78f6eec3ca.jpg?v=1664888992","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/transformations-identity-construction-in-contemporary-culture-9780253219572","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}