Smart living
Subtitle: lifestyle media and popular expertise
By: Tania Lewis.
Series: Popular culture and everyday life -- v. 15
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9780820486789; 9780820486772
Subjects: Lifestyles -- United States; Popular culture -- United States; Television -- Social aspects -- United States; Makeover television programs -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introducing the lifestyle expert; title: From manners to makeovers : a recent history of lifestyle advice; title: Eating expertise : from nutritionists to TV chefs; title: He needs to face his fears with these five queers!; title: Queer eye for the straight guy, makeover TV and the lifestyle expert; title: Honey, we're killing the kids : producing lifestyle TV in Australia; title: DIY lifestyles consuming health information on the Internet; title: Lifestyle, Inc. : celebrity, branding, and ordinary expertise.