The past decade has seen an explosion of lifestyle makeover TV
shows. Audiences around the world are being urged to 'renovate'
everything from their homes to their pets and children while
lifestyle experts on TV now tell us what not to eat and what not to
wear. Makeover television and makeover culture is now ubiquitous
and yet, compared with reality TV shows like Big Brother and
Survivor, there has been relatively little critical attention paid
to this format. This exciting collection of essays written by
leading media scholars from the UK, US and Australia aims to reveal
the reasons for the huge popularity and influence of the makeover
show. Written in a lively and accessible manner, the essays brought
together here will help readers 'make sense' of makeover TV by
offering a range of different approaches to understanding the
emergence of this popular cultural phenomenon. Looking at a range
of shows from The Biggest Loser to Trinny and Susannah Undress,
essays include an analysis of how and why makeover TV shows have
migrated across such a range of TV cultures, the social
significance of the rise of home renovation shows, the different
ways in which British versus American audiences identify with
makeover shows, and the growing role of lifestyle TV in the context
of neo-liberalism in educating us to be 'good' citizens. This book
was published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media and
Cultural Studies.
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