The Makeover : Reality Television and Reflexive Audiences

• Tác giả: Katherine Sender
• ISBN-13: 978-0814738979
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York : New York University Press, 2012.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 462058
• Chủ đề: 1. Makeover television programs--History and criticism; 2. Reality television programs--History and criticism; 3. Émissions de metamorphose televisees--Histoire et critique; 4. Makeover television programs; 5. PERFORMING ARTS--Television; 6. Reality television programs; 7. Kijkgedrag; 8. Reality-TV; 9. Televisie

Tóm tắt

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.