Brenda R Weber

Makeover TV

Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

""Makeover TV" is a project of striking originality and timeliness, written by a skillful, sure critic. Brenda R. Weber's analyses are consistently subtle and penetrating."--Diane Negra, co-editor of "Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 153mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780822345688
• ISBN-10: 0822345684
• Artikelnr.: 26551997

Autorenporträt

Brenda R. Weber

Inhaltsangabe

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