Comforting the comfortable: Extreme makeover home edition's ideological conquest

Critical Studies in Media Communication

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 267-290

  Winslow, Luke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Class; Extreme Makeover: Home Edition; Ideology; Myth; Reality television

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954841894     PISSN: 15295036     EISSN: 14795809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15295030903583549     Document Type: Article

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