Download or read book Lifestyle Media and the Formation of the Self written by J. Raisborough and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be the best you can be' urge self-help books and makeover TV shows, but what kind of self is imagined as needing a makeover and what kind of self is imagined as the happy result? Drawing on recent sociology and psychology, this book explores the function of slummy mummies, headless zombies and living autopsies to creating an idea of self.