Comedia Consumption, Identity and Style

Explores the role of consumer culture in the contemporary economy, showing how our private leisure activities are constructions of a powerful and manipulative consumer market. First Published in 1990. This is a book about the meaning of our lives as consumers. It is about leisure, lifestyle, and markets in today’s consumer culture. In 1986 one measure of people’s use of time in Britain identified television watching as the major activity for both men and women outside paid employment and sleeping.