Zborowski, James2018-09-262018-09-262012https://www.necsus-ejms.org/test/can-you-see-yourself-living-here-structures-of-desire-in-recent-british-lifestyle-television/https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/3201As part of her ‘attempt to establish the specificity of contemporary [lifestyle] programmes’ on British television, Charlotte Brunsdon identifies ‘a changing grammar of the close-up’ as an important element of what she argues is a tendency for these programmes to offer melodrama rather than realism. Brunsdon argues that in the preceding ‘hobby’ genre, close-ups are ‘governed by the logic of exposition’ and instruction. However, in more recent programmes, ‘[i]nstead of focusing on operations, the camera focuses on reactions: the climax of GROUND FORCE [BBC, 1998-2005] is the close-up on the face of the garden owner, not the garden’. These close-up ‘reveals’ are a key part of the ‘after’ phase of the ‘before and after’ identified by Rachel Moseley as a constitutive trope of makeover television – a prominent subspecies of contemporary lifestyle programming.engKochenLebensmittelLebensstilEigentumRenovierungVerbesserungFernsehenBritaincookingfoodLifestylepropertyrenovationtelevision79110.5117/NECSUS2012.2.ZBOR10.25969/mediarep/150492213-0217