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    Feeling bad can be good?: audience research on Korean reality makeover shows, Get It Beauty and The Body Show

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    Authors
    Lee, Jin
    Lee, Claire S
    Date
    2017
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Lee, J. and Lee, C.S. 2017. Feeling bad can be good?: audience research on Korean reality makeover shows, Get It Beauty and The Body Show. Critical Studies in Media Communication. 34 (3): pp. 250-263.
    Source Title
    Critical Studies in Media Communication
    DOI
    10.1080/15295036.2017.1296581
    ISSN
    1529-5036
    Faculty
    Faculty of Humanities
    School
    School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79517
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This paper investigates the feelings of individuals who have been exposed to the continuous demands for managing and beautifying the body. Through audience research on Korean reality shows about body/beauty, Get It Beauty and The Body Show, we attempt to understand how the discourses of body care work at the individual level. Our interviewees’ feelings of being stressed, burdened, and annoyed about the discourses in the shows signify their (un)conscious acknowledgment of the false promises of the self-care rhetoric. However, the discourses of willpower and the embedded voyeuristic pleasure of watching the shows make it difficult to place such feelings in the public domain. We conclude that individuals’ feelings lose their potential as resistant voices when “feeling bad” is discounted as personal, while a feeling of individual achievement is excessively celebrated.

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