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Makeover television, governmentality and the good citizen

Laurie Ouellette Communication Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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James Hay Department of Communication, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
Pages 471-484 | Published online: 04 Aug 2008

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