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The happiness illusion: how the media sold us a fairytale

  • Luke Hockley
    ,
  • Nadi Fadina
Research Output: Book/Report Edited book Peer-review

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Abstract

The Happiness Illusion explores how the metaphorical insights of fairy-tales have been literalised and turned into commodities. In so doing, their ability to educate and entertain has largely been lost. Instead advertising and television sell us products that offer to magically transform the way we look, how we age, where we live –both in the city and the countryside, the possibility of new jobs, and so forth. All of these are supposed to make us happy. But despite the allure of ‘retail therapy’ modern magic has lost its spell.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Book/Report Edited book Peer-review

Original language

English

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/06/2015

Publication status

Published - 01/06/2015

Publisher

Routledge, United States, United Kingdom

ISBN (Print)

9223372036854775807

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/576457

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