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.