Brenda R Weber

Makeover TV

Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780822345510
• ISBN-10: 082234551X
• Artikelnr.: 26552286

Autorenporträt

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

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