Brand New You: Makeover Television and the American Dream

Brand New You: Makeover Television and the American Dream

Brand New You: Makeover Television and the American Dream


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0h 53m 1970 HD

Watch brand new you: makeover television and the american dream on Soap2day. What do popular television makeover programs like What Not to Wear, The Biggest Loser, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and The Swan tell us about how to look and feel? What do they tell us about what a good life looks like in contemporary America? This new film based on Katherine Sender's book The Makeover explores these questions against the backdrop of American ideals of self-invention and upward mobility. Asking what it means to be an authentic self in an increasingly mediated world -- to be both ordinary and special, to be happy with who we are while always wanting something better -- Brand New You shows how the interventions featured in makeover shows, from weight loss to cosmetic surgery, reproduce conventional norms of physical attractiveness and success.

Brand New You: Makeover Television and the American Dream (1970)
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