The Richard & Judy Book Club Reader : Popular Texts and the Practices of Reading


Jenni. Ramone
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
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Farnham : : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, , 2011.
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1 online resource (224 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: On Readers and Reading; Jenni Ramone and Helen Cousins; Part 1 The Richard & Judy Book Club Readers; 1 Suspicious Minds: Richard & Judy's Book Club and Its Resistant Readers; 2 Entertainment Media, Risk and the Experience Commodity; 3 Different Spaces, Same Old Stories? On Being a Reader in The Richard & Judy Book Club; 4 Richard and Judy Behind Bars; Part 2 Reading The Richard & Judy Book Club Selections; 5 You Can't Judge a Book by Its Coverage: The Body that Writes and the Television Book Club. - 6 "Not the normal kind of chicklit"? Richard & Judy and the Feminized Middlebrow7 The Roles of the Storytellers: Richard and Judy Read The Jane Austen Book Club; 8 A Good Authentic Read: Exoticism in the Postcolonial Novels of the Richard & Judy Book Club.; 9 The Delicious Side of the Story: Culinary Writing, Cultural Contexts and the Club; Part 3 After The Richard & Judy Book Club; 10 "What really counts is the story": Interview with Andrew Smith, Author of Moondust, (February 10, 2010); 11 Ten of Thousands: The TV Book Club. - Appendix The Richard & Judy Book Club and Summer Reads Lists by YearIndex. - The Richard & Judy Book Club Reader is the first book to consider the impact of the televised book club on reading practices and the publishing and promotion of books in the UK, in comparison with other reading groups, including Oprah's Book Club and online reading communities. The club, the books and their readers are considered from the perspectives of literary, cultural and media studies in this compelling collection.
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9781409401339

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