The makeover reality television and reflexive audiences /
Watch this show, buy this product, you can be a whole new you! Makeover television shows repeatedly promise self-renewal and the opportunity for reinvention, but what do we know about the people who watch them? As it turns out, surprisingly little. The Makeover is the first book to consider the rapi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Critical cultural communication.
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost |
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| Summary: | Watch this show, buy this product, you can be a whole new you! Makeover television shows repeatedly promise self-renewal and the opportunity for reinvention, but what do we know about the people who watch them? As it turns out, surprisingly little. The Makeover is the first book to consider the rapid rise of makeover shows from the perspectives of their viewers. Katherine Sender argues that this genre of reality television continues a long history of self-improvement, shaped through contemporary media, technological, and economic contexts. Most people think that reality television viewers. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-227, 229-235) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814740699 0814740693 9780814740705 0814740707 9780814738979 0814738974 9780814771334 0814771335 |