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The makeover : reality television and reflexive audiences / Katherine Sender
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Critical cultural communicationPublisher: New York : New York University Press, 2012Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:- 9780814738979
- 9780814771334
- 791.45/655 23/eng/20240916
- PN1992.8.R43
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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 viewersPPN: PPN: 1916212212Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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.
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