The Makeover : Reality Television and Reflexive Audiences / Katherine Sender.
Sender, Katherine, author.
2012
PN1992.8.R43 S47 2012
Available Online

Linked e-resources

Linked Resource Online Access

Details

Title The Makeover : Reality Television and Reflexive Audiences / Katherine Sender.
Author Sender, Katherine, author.
ISBN 9780814738979
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814740699.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.18574/nyu/9780814740699.001.0001 doi
Call Number PN1992.8.R43 S47 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.45655
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 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.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics text file PDF
Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023)
Series Critical Cultural Communication ; ; 26
In New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9780814740699
Linked Resources Online Access
Record Appears in Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Self-Projects
2. Gender and Genre
3. Not Like Paris Hilton
4. Shame on You
5. Feeling Real
6. Mirror, Mirror
7. Research Reflexivity
8. Once More with Feeling
Appendix I. Protocols
Appendix II. Demographic Data
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Browse Subjects

Show more subjects...

Statistics

from
to
Export