Changing rooms, biggest losers and backyard blitzes: A history of makeover television in the United Kingdom, United States and Australia

Continuum

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 447-458

  Lewis, Tania ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84898529455     PISSN: 10304312     EISSN: 14693666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10304310802189949     Document Type: Review

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