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The Makeover: Reality Television and Reflexive Audiences

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Description for The Makeover: Reality Television and Reflexive Audiences Paperback. Intervenes in debates about both reality television and audience research, offering the concept of the reflexive self to move these debates forward Series: Critical Cultural Communication. Num Pages: 259 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; JFDT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.

The first book to consider the rapid rise of makeover shows from the perspectives of their viewers
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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, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Critical Cultural Communication
Number of Pages
259
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814740705
SKU
V9780814740705
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About Katherine Sender
Katherine Sender is Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of the book Business, Not Politics: The Making of the Gay Market (2004) and is co-editor of The Politics of Reality TV: Global Perspectives (2011).

Reviews for The Makeover: Reality Television and Reflexive Audiences
Like all ground-breaking studies of culture, The Makeover, appropriately, tells us not just about its object, narrowly construed, but about ourselves, the society we have created, and the contradictions that permeate both. Sender combines detailed empirical research with thoughtful and nuanced interpretation to provide us with a timely meditation on the limitsand potentialsof reflexivity. The result is a smart and ... Read more

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