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Informationen zum Autor Tania Lewis is a Senior Research Fellow in Sociology at La Trobe University. She is the author of Smart Living: Lifestyle Media and Popular Expertise (Peter Lang! New York: 2008). Her current research is on green lifestyles and ethical consumption! and lifestyle television in Asia. Zusammenfassung Makeover television and culture is now ubiquitous and yet, compared with reality TV, there has been relatively little critical attention paid to this format. This exciting collection 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: revealing the makeover show Tania Lewis Part I Industry 2. Changing Rooms, Biggest Losers and Backyard Blitzes: A history of makeover television in the UK, US and Australia Tania Lewis 3. Makeover on the move: Global television and program formats Albert Moran Part II Frameworks 4. Makeover television, governmentality and the ‘good’ citizen James Hay and Laurie Ouellette 5. Economy and reflexivity in makeover TV Guy Redden 6. Insecure: narratives and economies of the branded self in transformation television Alison Hearn Part III Sub-genres 7. Property and Home-Makeover Television: Risk, Thrift and Taste Buck Clifford Rosenberg 8. Media-bodies and Screen-births: Cosmetic Surgery Reality Television Meredith Jones 9. Out For Life: Makeover Television and the Transformation of Fitness on Bravo’s 'Work Out' Dana Heller 10. 'Little Angels': The mediation of parenting Peter Lunt 11. Fixing relationships in 2-4-1 transformations Frances Bonner Part IV Audiences 12. The Labour of Transformation and Circuits of Value ‘around’ Reality Television Beverley Skeggs and Helen Wood 13. Epidemics of will, failures of self-esteem: Responding to fat bodies in 'The Biggest Loser' and 'What Not to Wear' Katherine Sender and Margaret Sullivan 14. Afterword: The New World Makeover Toby Miller ...
