Fix me up
Subtitle: essays on television dating and makeover shows
By: edited by Judith Lancioni.
Contributors: Lancioni, Judith, 1943-
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780786443826
Subjects: Reality television programs -- Social aspects -- United States; Makeover television programs -- Social aspects -- United States; Dating shows (Television programs) -- Social aspects -- United States
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Judith Lancioni; title: The dating games: real lessons learned from unreal programs / David Gudelunas; title: The reality of reality dating: analyzing viewers' perceptions / Elizabeth Ribarsky; title: Women's shared viewing of The bachelor: generational motives and perceptions / Cary W. Horvath and Margaret O. Finucane; title: Fans of plastic surgery reality television: hopes and concerns in fan postings / Joan L. Conners; title: Parasocial relationships in dating and makeover reality television / Narissra Maria Punyanunt-Carter; title: Average Joe and the not so average Jane / Judith Lancioni; title: The swan as sado-ritual syndrome? / Christopher D. Rodkey; title: The boob tube: authority, resistance, and Dr. 90210 / Shana Heinricy; title: Revising bodily texts to the dominant standard: a feminist rhetorical criticism of the Makeover episode of America's Next top model / Julie-Ann Scott; title: Tyra Banks' Top model: makeover in reality television / Frank H. Wallis; title: "She just called you a metro": rating masculinity on reality television / Matthew Johnson; title: Materialism, disposal and consumerism: Queer eye and the commodification of identity / Yarma Veláquez Vargas; title: New blouse, new house, I need a new spouse: the politics of transformation and identity in television makeover and swap shows / Shira Tarrant; title: 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; title: Reality television, body cult and identity metamorphosis in Brazil and the United States / Bianca Freire-Medeiros and Andrér Bakker.