Makeover Television by Dana Heller

Makeover Television by Dana Heller

With the explosion of reality television onto screens and schedules worldwide, this timely and original book explores makeover tv, the ubiquitous reality format that has received little critical attention to date. Top writers and scholars take discussion of reality tv to the next level with lively examination of a wide range of contemporary makeover shows, such as Extreme Makeover, The Swan, Faking It, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and The Apprentice, that ultimately speak to television's own enduring ability to reinvent itself. The book is organized around the overarching argument that contemporary makeover programming provides the paradigmatic example of reality television's far-reaching prominence and mass appeal, an appeal that lies in powers of transformation or televisual performance that tries not only to capture reality but to intervene in it, with the ultimate aim of remodelling reality. They examine how makeover programming annexes the private space of the home, transforms the body through surgery and rigorous discipline, recreates aspects of social identity and consumer lifestyle, and changes ordinary persons into celebrities and celebrities into ordinary persons.

FEMINIST REVIEW'This is an interesting collection providing thought-provoking insights into what is actually being made over by the television makeover..a worthy and worthwhile collection.'- Elaine Beale

Dana Heller is Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Institute at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She is the author of 'Family Plots: The De-Oedipalization of Popular Culture' (1995), 'The Feminization of Quest-Romance: Radical Departures' (1990), and the editor of 'Cross Purposes: Lesbians, Feminists, and the Limits of Alliance' (1997), 'The Selling of 9/11: How a National Tragedy Became a Commodity' (2005), and 'The Great American Makeover: Television, History, Nation (2006).

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ISBN 13	9781845113308
ISBN 10	1845113306
Titel	Makeover Television
Autor	Dana Heller
Serie	Reading Contemporary Television
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Erscheinungsjahr	2007-04-27
Seitenanzahl	240
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