An edition of Fix me up
(2009)
Fix me up
essays on television dating and makeover shows
by Judith Lancioni
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"This collection of essays focuses on two sub-genres of reality television: dating shows and makeover reality shows. Each author explores a different aspect of one or both of these types of shows, focusing especially on the cultural interaction between the text--dating and makeover shows--and society"--Provided by publisher.
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Fix me up: essays on television dating and makeover shows
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Table of Contents
Introduction / Judith Lancioni
The dating games: real lessons learned from unreal programs / David Gudelunas
The reality of reality dating: analyzing viewers' perceptions / Elizabeth Ribarsky
Women's shared viewing of The bachelor: generational motives and perceptions / Cary W. Horvath and Margaret O. Finucane
Fans of plastic surgery reality television: hopes and concerns in fan postings / Joan L. Conners
Parasocial relationships in dating and makeover reality television / Narissra Maria Punyanunt-Carter
Average Joe and the not so average Jane / Judith Lancioni
The swan as sado-ritual syndrome? / Christopher D. Rodkey
The boob tube: authority, resistance, and Dr. 90210 / Shana Heinricy
Revising bodily texts to the dominant standard: a feminist rhetorical criticism of the Makeover episode of America's Next top model / Julie-Ann Scott
Tyra Banks' Top model: makeover in reality television / Frank H. Wallis
"She just called you a metro": rating masculinity on reality television / Matthew Johnson
Materialism, disposal and consumerism: Queer eye and the commodification of identity / Yarma Veláquez Vargas
New blouse, new house, I need a new spouse: the politics of transformation and identity in television makeover and swap shows / Shira Tarrant
Revealing western norms of gender identity in What not to wear: idealizing femininity in visual culture to win the "War on Terror" / Ellen W. Gorsevski
Reality television, body cult and identity metamorphosis in Brazil and the United States / Bianca Freire-Medeiros and Andrér Bakker.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| July 31, 2019 | Edited by MARC Bot | associate edition with work OL18638426W |
| August 19, 2010 | Edited by IdentifierBot | added LibraryThing ID |
| April 16, 2010 | Edited by bgimpertBot | Added goodreads ID. |
| September 4, 2009 | Created by ImportBot | Imported from Library of Congress MARC record |