Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 226 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also available in print
ISBN:
0857714546
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1435691679
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1845113306
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6612583193
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9781845113308
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9780857714541
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9781435691674
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9786612583193
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9780755695980
Series Statement:
Reading contemporary television
Content:
Introduction: reading the makeover / Dana Heller -- Programming reality: control societies, new subjects and the powers of transformation / Jack Z. Bratich -- Mapping genres: broadcaster and audience perceptions of makeover television / Caroline Dover and Annette Hill -- 'Old, new, borrowed, blue': makeover television in British primetime / Nigel Morris -- Life swap: celebrity expert as lifestyle adviser / Helen Powell and Sylvie Prasad -- Make me a celebrity: celebrity exercise videos and the origins of makeover television / Vanessa Russell -- Dressing down: the Chaotic camcorder makeover of a pop star and popular genre / Jennifer Gillan -- Faking it and the transformation of identity / Joanne Morreale -- Self-made women: cosmetic surgery shows and the construction of female psychopathology / Elizabeth Atwood Gailey -- A perfect lie: visual (dis)pleasures and policing femininity in Nip/tuck / Kim Akass and Janet McCabe -- The gentle art of manscaping: lessons in hetero-masculinity from the Queer eye guys / Joanna L. Di Mattia -- Makeover morality and consumer culture / Guy Redden -- Extreme makeover: home edition: an American fairy tale / Gareth Palmer -- 'Now I am ready to tell how bodies are changed in to different bodies ... ' Ovid, The metamorphoses / Kathryn Fraser -- 'Makeover madness': the designable body and cosmetic surgery in Steven Meisel's fashion photography / Anne Jerslev.
Content:
This volume explores makeover television, the reality format that cuts across all genres and time slots. Chapters examine how makeover programming annexes the private space of the home, transforms the body through surgery and rigorous discipline, recreates aspects of consumer lifestyle and social identity and much more
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Also available in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845113308
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1845113306
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Makeover television London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2007 ISBN 9781845113308
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1845113306
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780755695980
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