Exposing lifestyle television : the big reveal / ed. by Gareth Palmer.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction--the habit of scrutiny / Gareth Palmer -- Bad citizens : the class politics of lifestyle television / Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn -- Digging for difference : British and Australian television gardening programmes / Frances Bonner -- 'Who let the dogs out?' Pets, parenting and the ethics of lifestyle programming / Maggie Andrews and Fan Carter -- Fashioning femininity : clothing the body and the self in What not to wear / Yael D. Sherman -- Foodie makeovers : public service television and lifestyle guidance / Isabelle de Solier -- Shame on you : cosmetic surgery and class transformation in 10 years younger / Julie Doyle and Irmi Karl -- Revealing the inner housewife : housework and history in domestic lifestyle television / Laurel Forster -- What not to buy : consumption and anxiety in the television makeover / Deborah Philips -- Making over the talent show / Guy Redden -- Masculine makeovers : lifestyle television, metrosexuals and real blokes / Buck Clifford Rosenberg -- A nation of cocooners? Explanations of the home improvement TV boom in the United States / Madeleine Shufeldt Esch -- 'Ecoreality' : the politics and aesthetics of 'green' television / Lyn Thomas.

"This volume presents case studies from across the lifestyle genre, considering a variety of themes but with a shared understanding of the self as an evolving project, driven by enterprise. Written by an international team of scholars, the collection will appeal to sociologists of culture and consumption, as well as to scholars of media studies and media production throughout the world."--Jacket.