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Volume 22, 2008 - Issue 4: Television Transformations: Revealing The Makeover Show
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Insecure: Narratives and economies of the branded self in transformation television

Alison Hearn Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, CanadaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 495-504 | Published online: 04 Aug 2008

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