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The Makeover

Reality Television and Reflexive Audiences
  • ISBN-13: 9780814740699
  • Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Katherine Sender
  • Price: AUD $184.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 28/11/2012
  • Format: Hardback (229.00mm X 153.00mm) 259 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Television [APT]TV & society [JFDT]
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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 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.
Self-Projects: Makeover Shows and the Reflexive Imperative2 Gender and Genre: Making Over Women's Culture 3 Not Like Paris Hilton: Instruction and Consumption in Makeover Shows4 Shame on You: Schadenfreude and Surveillance5 Feeling Real: Empirical Truth and Emotional Authenticity6 Mirror, Mirror: The Reflexive Self7 Research Reflexivity: Audiences and Investigators in Context8 Once More with Feeling: Reconsidering Reflexivity
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