The Makeover by Katherine Sender

The Makeover by Katherine Sender

Intervenes in debates about both reality television and audience research, offering the concept of the reflexive self to move these debates forward

"Like all ground-breaking studies of culture, The Makeover, appropriately, tells us not just about its object, narrowly construed, but about ourselves, the society we have created, and the contradictions that permeate bothSender combines detailed empirical research with thoughtful and nuanced interpretation to provide us with a timely meditation on the limitsand potentialsof reflexivity. The result is a smart and original contribution to the way we think about popular culture and its relation to broader questions of self-hood, identity, and power." - Mark Andrejevic,University of Queensland "With its central focus on audience practices, Senders lucidly-written book is unique among the growing body of scholarship on reality TV. While offering a smart and provocative analysis of the complex appeal of specific & makeover shows, she also makes a major contribution to active audience theory. In particular, she problematizes the issue of reflexivity, in the context both of viewers relationships with the shows and in their roles as research participants. In doing so she challenges all audience scholars to examine more carefully the very nature of the research encounter." - S. Elizabeth Bird,author of The Audience in Everyday Life "A success on multiple levels. Sender's analysis... provides strong insight into the social significance of reality television." (Contemporary Sociology)

Katherine Sender is Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of the book Business, Not Politics: The Making of the Gay Market (2004) and is co-editor of The Politics of Reality TV: Global Perspectives (2011).

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ISBN 13	9780814740699
ISBN 10	0814740693
Title	The Makeover
Author	Katherine Sender
Series	Critical Cultural Communication
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	New York University Press
Year published	2012-10-29
Number of pages	277
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