{"product_id":"9780814771334","title":"The Makeover: Reality Television and Reflexive Audiences","description":"Watch this show, buy this product, you can be a whole new you!   Makeover television shows repeatedly promise  self-renewal and the opportunity for reinvention, but what do we know  about the people who watch them? As it turns out, surprisingly little. \u003cem\u003eThe Makeover\u003c\/em\u003e  is the first book to consider the rapid rise of makeover shows from the  perspectives of their viewers. Katherine Sender argues that this genre  of reality television continues a long history of self-improvement,  shaped through contemporary media, technological, and economic contexts.  Most people think that reality television viewers are ideological dupes  and obliging consumers. Sender, however, finds that they have a much  more nuanced and reflexive approach to the shows they watch. They are  critical of the instruction, the consumer plugs, and the manipulative  editing in the shows. At the same time, they buy into the shows’  imperative to construct a reflexive self: an inner self that can be seen  as if from the outside, and must be explored and expressed to others. \u003cem\u003eThe Makeover \u003c\/em\u003eintervenes  in debates about both reality television and audience research,  offering the concept of the reflexive self to move these debates  forward.","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118613151984,"sku":"9780814771334","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780814771334_p0.jpg?v=1763749205","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814771334","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}