Overview

This collection of essays focuses on two sub-genres of reality television: dating shows, like The Bachelor, Joe Millionaire, and the earlier Love Connection; and makeover reality shows, like The Swan and Are You Hot? The Search for America's Sexiest People. 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.

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Author:   Judith Lancioni
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.308kg
ISBN:  

9780786443826

ISBN 10:   0786443820
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 December 2009
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Introduction JUDITH LANCIONI      1. The Dating Games: Real Lessons Learned from Unreal Programs DAVID GUDELUNAS      2. The Reality of Reality Dating: Analyzing Viewers’ Perceptions ELIZABETH RIBARSKY      3. Women’s Shared Viewing of The Bachelor : Generational Motives and Perceptions CARY W. HORVATH and MARGARET O. FINUCANE      4. Fans of Plastic Surgery Reality Television: Hopes and Concerns in Fan Postings JOAN L. CONNERS      5. Parasocial Relationships in Dating and Makeover Reality Television NARISSRA MARIA PUNYANUNT-CARTER      6. Average Joe and the Not So Average Jane JUDITH LANCIONI      7. The Swan as Sado-Ritual Syndrome? CHRISTOPHER D. RODKEY      8. The Boob Tube: Authority, Resistance, and Dr. 90210 SHANA HEINRICY      9. Revising Bodily Texts to the Dominant Standard: A Feminist Rhetorical Criticism of the Makeover Episode of America’s Next Top Model JULIE-ANN SCOTT      10. Tyra Banks’ Top Model: Makeover in Reality Television FRANK H. WALLIS      11. “She Just Called You a Metro”: Rating Masculinity on Reality Television MATTHEW JOHNSON      12. Materialism, Disposal and Consumerism: Queer Eye and the Commodification of Identity YARMA VELÁZQUEZ VARGAS      13. New Blouse, New House, I Need a New Spouse: The Politics of Transformation and Identity in Television Makeover and Swap Shows SHIRA TARRANT      14. 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      15. Reality Television, Body Cult and Identity Metamorphosis in Brazil and the United States BIANCA FREIRE-MEDEIROS and ANDRÉ BAKKER      About the Contributors      Index     

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Judith Lancioni is an associate professor in the Department of Radio, Television, and Film at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey, where she teaches courses in media research and criticism, television scriptwriting, and images of women in film.

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