Makeover television : realities remodelled / edited by Dana Heller.

Other author Heller, Dana A. (Dana Alice), 1959-
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon : I. B. Tauris, ©2007.
Descriptionxiii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Subjects

SeriesReading contemporary television
Reading contemporary television. ^A717775
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN9781845113308 (pbk.)
ISBN1845113306 (pbk.)