Introduction / Judith Lancioni -- The dating games: real lessons learned from unreal programs / David Gudelunas -- The reality of reality dating: analyzing viewers' perceptions / Elizabeth Ribarsky -- Women's shared viewing of The bachelor: generational motives and perceptions / Cary W. Horvath and Margaret O. Finucane -- Fans of plastic surgery reality television: hopes and concerns in fan postings / Joan L. Conners -- Parasocial relationships in dating and makeover reality television / Narissra Maria Punyanunt-Carter -- Average Joe and the not so average Jane / Judith Lancioni -- The swan as sado-ritual syndrome? / Christopher D. Rodkey -- The boob tube: authority, resistance, and Dr. 90210 / Shana Heinricy -- Revising bodily texts to the dominant standard: a feminist rhetorical criticism of the makeover episode of America's next top model / Julie-Ann Scott -- Tyra Banks' top model: makeover in reality television / Frank H. Wallis -- "She just called you a metro": rating masculinity on reality television / Matthew Johnson -- Materialism, disposal and consumerism: Queer eye and the commodification of identity / Yarma Velázquez Vargas -- New blouse, new house, I need a new spouse: the politics of transformation and identity in television makeover and swap shows / Shira Tarrant -- 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 -- Reality television, body cult and identity metamorphosis in Brazil and the United States / Bianca Freire-Medeiros and André Bakker.
Summary:
"This collection of essays focuses on two sub-genres of reality television: dating shows and makeover reality shows. 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"--Provided by publisher.
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