Makeover television : realities remodelled /: realities remodelled. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Dana Heller.
• Other Names: Heller, Dana A (Dana Alice), 1959-
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: London New York : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 791.456; Makeover television programs; Reality television programs; Television criticism; PERFORMING ARTS -- Television -- Reference; Makeover television programs; Reality television programs; Television criticism; Reality-TV; Televisieprogramma's; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781435691674; 1435691679; 9780857714541; 0857714546
• Related ISBNs: 9781845113308; 1845113306
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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