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 American 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 makovers: 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 Schufeldt Esch --;'Ecoreality' : The politics and aesthetics of 'green' television / Lyn Thomas.
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Lifestyle television has become one of the dominant television genres, certain shows having become global brands with formats exploited by producers all over the world. This volume presents case studies from across the lifestyle genre, considering a variety of themes. It is suitable for sociologists of culture and consumption.