TV Transformations
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TV Transformations

Revealing the Makeover Show

Tania Lewis

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TV Transformations

Revealing the Makeover Show

Tania Lewis

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About This Book

The past decade has seen an explosion of lifestyle makeover TV shows. Audiences around the world are being urged to 'renovate' everything from their homes to their pets and children while lifestyle experts on TV now tell us what not to eat and what not to wear. Makeover television and makeover culture is now ubiquitous and yet, compared with reality TV shows like Big Brother and Survivor, there has been relatively little critical attention paid to this format. This exciting collection of essays written by leading media scholars from the UK, US and Australia aims to reveal the reasons for the huge popularity and influence of the makeover show. Written in a lively and accessible manner, the essays brought together here will help readers 'make sense' of makeover TV by offering a range of different approaches to understanding the emergence of this popular cultural phenomenon. Looking at a range of shows from The Biggest Loser to Trinny and Susannah Undress, essays include an analysis of how and why makeover TV shows have migrated across such a range of TV cultures, the social significance of the rise of home renovation shows, the different ways in which British versus American audiences identify with makeover shows, and the growing role of lifestyle TV in the context of neo-liberalism in educating us to be 'good' citizens.

This book was published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
ISBN
9781317991588
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Television History & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  7. Introduction: Revealing the Makeover Show
  8. 1. Changing rooms, biggest losers and backyard blitzes: A history of makeover television in the United Kingdom, United States and Australia
  9. 2. Makeover on the move: Global television and programme formats
  10. 3. Makeover television, governmentality and the good citizen
  11. 4. Economy and reflexivity in makeover television
  12. 5. Insecure: Narratives and economies of the branded self in transformation television
  13. 6. Property and home-makeover television: Risk, thrift and taste
  14. 7. Media-bodies and screen-births: Cosmetic surgery reality television
  15. 8. Out for life: Makeover television and the transformation of fitness on Bravo's Work Out
  16. 9. Little Angels: The mediation of parenting
  17. 10. Fixing relationships in 2-4-1 transformations
  18. 11. The labour of transformation and circuits of value ‘around’ reality television
  19. 12. Epidemics of will, failures of self-esteem: Responding to fat bodies in The Biggest Loser and What Not to Wear
  20. 13. Afterword: The new world makeover
  21. Index
Citation styles for TV Transformations

APA 6 Citation

[author missing]. (2013). TV Transformations (1st ed.). Taylor and Francis. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1679404/tv-transformations-pdf (Original work published 2013)

Chicago Citation

[author missing]. (2013) 2013. TV Transformations. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis. https://www.perlego.com/book/1679404/tv-transformations-pdf.

Harvard Citation

[author missing] (2013) TV Transformations. 1st edn. Taylor and Francis. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1679404/tv-transformations-pdf (Accessed: 25 September 2021).

MLA 7 Citation

[author missing]. TV Transformations. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis, 2013. Web. 25 Sept. 2021.