The Great American Makeover: Television, History, Nation

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Before: “Things Just Keep Getting Better…”....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
A Theatrical Manager:John Brown and the Radical Politics of the American Makeover Mythos....Pages 11-31
Plantation Makeover: Joel Chandler Harris’s Myths and Violations....Pages 33-49
Making over the New Adam....Pages 51-64
What Paris Reveals: The Sartorial and Sensual Transformation of American Girls....Pages 65-83
Making over Body and Soul: In His Steps and the Roots of Evangelical Popular Culture....Pages 85-103
Metrosexuality: See the Bright Light of Commodification Shine! Watch Yanqui Masculinity Made over!1,2....Pages 105-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
The Cinderella Makeover: Glamour Girl, Television Misery Shows, and 1950s Femininity....Pages 125-140
Queen for a Day: Remaking Consumer Culture, One Woman at a Time....Pages 141-157
Interior Design: Commodifying Self and Place in Extreme Makeover, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and The Swan....Pages 159-174
“Help is on the Way!”: Supernanny, Nanny 9 11, and the Neoliberal Politics of the Family....Pages 175-191
Extreme Makeover Homeland Security Edition....Pages 193-209
Changing Properties: The Makeover Show Crosses the Atlantic....Pages 211-229
After: Warhol’s “Reveal”....Pages 231-238
Back Matter....Pages 239-246