Weber / Spigel Makeover TV

Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9123-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 337 Seiten

Reihe: Console-ing passions: television and cultural power

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weber, Brenda R.

Spigel, Lynn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

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

Über Autor(innen)

Brenda R. Weber is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.