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Makeover TV : selfhood, citizenship, and celebrity / Brenda R. Weber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weber, Brenda R., 1964-
- Series:
- Console-ing passions.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Console-ing passions : television and cultural power
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Makeover television programs--United States.
- Makeover television programs.
- Makeover television programs--Social aspects--United States.
- Self-realization--Social aspects--United States.
- Self-realization.
- Self-perception--Social aspects--United States.
- Self-perception.
- Television--Social aspects--United States.
- Television.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (339 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2009]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Examines the phenomenon of makeover television in order to explore how these shows participate in cultural debates about body modification, empowerment, gender roles, and personal responsibility.
- Contents:
- Into the makeover maze : a method in the madness
- Makeover nation : Americanness, neoliberalism, and the citizen-subject
- Visible subjects : economies of looking, pedagogies of shame, sights of resistance
- "I'm a woman now!" : race, class, and femme-ing the normative
- What makes the man? : masculinity and the self-made (over) man
- Celebrated selfhood : reworking commodification through reality celebrity.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed November 3, 2023)
- ISBN:
- 9786613035998
- 9781283035996
- 1283035995
- 9780822391234
- 0822391236
- OCLC:
- 492386435
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