TV Transformations : Revealing the Makeover Show (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: Revealing the Makeover Show Tania Lewis Part I: Industry 2. Changing Rooms, Biggest Losers and Backyard Blitzes: A History of Makeover Television in the UK, US and Australia Tania Lewis 3. Makeover on the Move: Global Television and Program Formats Albert Moran Part II: Frameworks 4. Makeover Television, Governmentality and the ‘Good’ Citizen James Hay and Laurie Ouellette 5. Economy and Reflexivity in Makeover TV Guy Redden 6. Insecure: Narratives and Economies of the Branded Self in Transformation Television Alison Hearn Part III: Sub-genres 7. Property and Home-Makeover Television: Risk, Thrift and Taste Buck Clifford Rosenberg 8. Media-bodies and Screen-births: Cosmetic Surgery Reality Television Meredith Jones 9. Out For Life: Makeover Television and the Transformation of Fitness on Bravo’s Work Out Dana Heller 10. Little Angels: The Mediation of Parenting Peter Lunt 11. Fixing Relationships in 2-4-1 Transformations Frances Bonner Part IV: Audiences 12. The Labour of Transformation and Circuits of Value ‘around’ Reality Television Beverley Skeggs and Helen Wood 13. Epidemics of Will, Failures of Self-esteem: Responding to Fat Bodies in The Biggest Loser and What Not to Wear, Katherine Sender and Margaret Sullivan 14. Afterword: The New World Makeover Toby Miller