The Makeover : : Reality Television and Reflexive Audiences / / Katherine Sender.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Critical Cultural Communication ; 26
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
1. Self-Projects --
2. Gender and Genre --
3. Not Like Paris Hilton --
4. Shame on You --
5. Feeling Real --
6. Mirror, Mirror --
7. Research Reflexivity --
8. Once More with Feeling --
Appendix I. Protocols --
Appendix II. Demographic Data --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index --
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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 are ideological dupes and obliging consumers. Sender, however, finds that they have a much more nuanced and reflexive approach to the shows they watch. They are critical of the instruction, the consumer plugs, and the manipulative editing in the shows. At the same time, they buy into the shows’ imperative to construct a reflexive self: an inner self that can be seen as if from the outside, and must be explored and expressed to others. The Makeover intervenes in debates about both reality television and audience research, offering the concept of the reflexive self to move these debates forward.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780814738979
9783110706444
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Katherine Sender.