Interior Design: Commodifying self and place in extreme makeover, extreme makeover: Home edition, and the Swan

The Great American Makeover: Television, History, Nation

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 159-174

  Deery, June ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 84903794802     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780312376178     Document Type: Chapter

References (14)

1. Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulations (New York: Semiotext(e), 1983).
2. Henri Lefebvre, Everyday Life in the Modern World (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1984), p. 63.http://www.homedepot.com/HDUS/EN_US/corporate/about/timeline.shtml (Accessed on October 12, 2005).
3. Lowes went from $6.4 billion in sales in 1994 to $36.5 billion in 2004: see http://www.shareholder.com/lowes /index2.cfm (Accessed on October 12, 2005).
4. Jean Baudrillard, The Ecstasy of Communication (New York: Semiotext(e), 1988), p. 26.
5. David E. Nye’s recent account in America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings (Boston: MIT Press, 2004).
6. Fredric Jameson, Signatures of the Visible (New York: Routledge, 1992), pp. 9-34.
7. Jameson, Signatures of the Visible, pp. 11-12.
8. abc.go.com/primetime/extrememakeover (Accessed on June 10, 2005).
9. Jean Kilbourne, Can’t Buy My Love (New York: Touchstone, 1999), p. 153.
10. Candid Camera, producer and host Allen Funt, CBS, 1960-1967.
11. Jean Baudrillard, Consumer Society (London: Sage, 1998), p. 129
12. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (New York: Pantheon, 1977).
13. Anthony Giddens, Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1991), p. 7. http://www.plasticsurgery.org (Accessed on March 20, 2005).
14. Nancy Ectoff, Survival of the Prettiest (New York: Doubleday, 1999).