Makeover TV - Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity

Informationen zum Autor Brenda R. Weber Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Argues that whether depicting transformations of bodies! trucks! finances! relationships! kids! or homes! makeovers depict a self achievable only in the transition from the 'Before-body' to the 'After-body' filled with confidence! coded with celebrity! and imbued with a renewed faith in the powers of meritocracy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Into the Makeover Maze: A Method in the Madness 1 1. Makeover Nation: Americanness, Neoliberalism, and the Citizen-Subject 37 2. Visible Subjects: Economies of Looking, Pedagogies of Shame, Sights of Resistance 81 3. "I'm a Woman Now!" Race, Class, and Femme-ing the Normative 127 4. What Makes the Man? Masculinity and the Self-Made (Over) Man 171 5. Celebrated Selfhood: Reworking Commodification through Reality Celebrity 215 Conclusion. Can This Makeover Be Saved? 253 Notes 267 Bibliography 285 Videography 301 Index 315

Product details

• Authors: Brenda R Weber, Brenda R. Weber
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.11.2009
• EAN: 9780822345510
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4551-0
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Console-ing Passions; Console-Ing Passions: Televisi; Console-ing Passions; Console-Ing Passions: Televisi
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet