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Reality gendervision : sexuality & gender on transatlantic reality television / Brenda R. Weber, editor.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2014]
Description
xiii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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e-Duke Books Gender Studies Collection 2016
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PN1992.8.R43 R43 2014
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Reality television programs
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Gender identity on television
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Sex role on television
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Weber, Brenda R., 1964-
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Summary note
This essay collection focuses on the gendered dimensions of reality television in both the United States and Great Britain. Through close readings of a wide range of reality programming, from Finding Sarah and Sister Wives to Ghost Adventures and Deadliest Warrior, the contributors think through questions of femininity and masculinity, as they relate to the intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality. They connect the genre's combination of real people and surreal experiences, of authenticity and artifice, to the production of identity and norms of citizenship, the commodification of selfhood, and the naturalization of regimes of power. Whether assessing the Kardashian family brand, portrayals of hoarders, or big-family programs such as 19 Kids and Counting, the contributors analyze reality television as a relevant site for the production and performance of gender. In the process, they illuminate the larger neoliberal and postfeminist contexts in which reality TV is produced, promoted, watched, and experienced.
Notes
Includes videography (pages 361-367).
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-360) and index.
Contents
Trash talk: gender as an analytic on reality television / Brenda R. Weber
The "pig," "the older woman," and the "catfight": gender, celebrity, and controversy in a decade of British reality TV / Su Holmes and Deborah Jermyn
Reality TV and the gendered politics of flaunting / Misha Kavka
Keeping up with the aspirations: commercial family values and the Kardashian brand / Maria Pramaggiore and Diane Negra
When America's queen of talk saved Britain's duchess of pork: finding Sarah, Oprah Winfrey, and transatlantic self-making / Brenda R. Weber
Wrecked: programming celesbian reality / Dana Heller
Abject femininity and compulsory masculinity on Jersey Shore / Amanda Ann Klein
Supersizing the family: nation, gender, and recession on reality TV / Rebecca Stephens
"Get more action" on gladiatorial television: simulation and masculinity on Deadliest Warrior / Lindsay Steenberg
Jade Goody's preemptive hagiography: neoliberal citizenship and reality TV celebrity / Kimberly Springer
"It's not TV, it's birth control": reality TV and the "problem" of teenage pregnancy / Laurie Ouellette
Intimating disaster: choices, women, and hoarding shows / Susan Lepselter
Freaky five-year-olds and mental mommies: narratives of gender, race, and class in TLC's Toddlers & Tiaras / Kirsten Pike
Legitimate targets: reality television and large people / Gareth Palmer
Spectral men: femininity, race, and traumatic manhood in the RTV ghost-hunter genre / David Greven.
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Other title(s)
Sexuality and gender on transatlantic reality television
ISBN
9780822356691 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0822356694 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780822356820 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
0822356821 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
0822376644 ((electronic bk.))
9780822376644 ((electronic bk.))
LCCN
2013042838
OCLC
859044882
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