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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sender, Katherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Self-projects: makeover shows and the reflexive imperative
  • Gender and genre: making over women's culture
  • Not like Paris Hilton: instruction and consumption in makeover shows
  • Shame on you: schadenfreude and surveillance
  • Feeling real: empirical truth and emotional authenticity
  • Mirror, mirror: the reflexive self
  • Research reflexivity: audiences and investigators in context
  • Once more with feeling: reconsidering reflexivity.