The Makeover : Reality Television and Reflexive Audiences /

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Sender, Katherine
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : New York University Press, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Kijkgedrag.
Reality-TV.
Televisie.
Reality television programs.
Makeover television programs.
PERFORMING ARTS > Television > Reference.
Émissions de metamorphose televisees > Histoire et critique.
Makeover television programs > History and criticism.
Reality television programs > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource.
ISBN:9780814738979

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