Exposing Lifestyle Television
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ABC Television
Alternative Hedonist
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class politics television
Cooking Shows
Cosmetic Surgery
cultural consumption
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extreme
femininity
Gardening Australia
Gillian McKeith
Good Life
Ground Force
Home Ran
identity transformation
Lifestyle Television
Lifestyle Tv
makeover
makeover programmes
Makeover Shows
media sociology
normative
PDM.
Popular Press Discourse
programmes
programming
public
qualitative case studies
Queer Eye
Ready Steady Cook
Real Good Life
Reality Tv
selfhood in media culture
show
swap
Television Makeover
Tv Chef
Tv Critic
Weight Loss Surgery
wife
Wife Swap
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138267732
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the last decade lifestyle television has become one of the most dominant television genres, with certain shows now global brands with formats exploited by producers all over the world. What unites these programmes is their belief that the human subject has a flexible, malleable identity that can be changed within television-friendly frameworks. In contrast to the talk shows of the eighties and nineties where modest transformation was discussed as an ideal, advances in technology, combined with changing tastes and demands of viewers, have created an appetite for dramatic transformations. This volume presents case studies from across the lifestyle genre, considering a variety of themes but with a shared understanding of the self as an evolving project, driven by enterprise. Written by an international team of scholars, the collection will appeal to sociologists of culture and consumption, as well as to scholars of media studies and media production throughout the world.
Gareth Palmer, Associate Head of Media, Music and Performance, University of Salford, UK.
