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Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era (Media and Power)
Paradigm Publishers
June 2008
On Sale: May 30, 2008
288 pages
ISBN: 1594514690
EAN: 9781594514692
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Non-Fiction
Over the last two decades Oprah Winfrey's journey has taken
her from talk show queen to, as Time Magazine has asserted,
one of the most important figures in popular culture.
Through her talk show, magazine, website, seminars, charity
work, and public appearances, her influence in the social,
economic, and political arenas of American life is
considerable and until now, largely unexamined. In The Age
of Oprah, media scholar and journalist Janice Peck traces
Winfrey's growing cultural impact and illustrates the
fascinating parallels between her road to fame and fortune
and the political-economic rise of neoliberalism in this
country. While seeking to understand Oprah's ascent to near
iconic status that she enjoys today, Peck's book provides a
fascinating window into the intersection of American
politics and culture over the past quarter century.
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