½²×ù£ºReality Television and Reflexive Audiences: Responding to Makeover Television
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Ñݽ²ÄÚÈݸÅÒª£ºThis talk draws from my recently published book The Makeover: Reality Television and Reflexive Audiences (New York University Press, 2012). I introduce four significant personal makeover shows and discuss audiences' responses to them. Do we enjoy watching the humiliation of others? Do we self-monitor and adjust as a result of watching makeovers on screen? Do we believe the “reality” of reality television? Audiences are highly reflexive about reality shows in three ways: they use the shows to be self-reflexive, they are reflexive about the media they consume, and they are reflexive about the research context. The audiences I spoke to, in other words, used makeover shows to consider their own selves and contexts, but they were also savvy about the production and consumption of makeover television, and explicitly constructed their responses to the shows within the research environment. Beyond the specifics of the makeover genre, I consider how reflexivity contributes to existing debates within audience reception studies.
Ñݽ²Õß½éÉÜ£ºKatherine Sender is a professor in Media, Film, and Television at the University of Auckland. She is the author of two books, Business not Politics: The Making of the Gay Market (2004) and The Makeover: Reality Television and Reflexive Audiences (2004) in addition to an edited anthology and journal special issue and many journal articles. She has produced and directed a number of documentaries, including Off the Straight and Narrow: Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals on Television. Her current project is a transnational study of the growing industry of sex museums and a concurrent flow of sexual discourses around the world.
