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Author | : Michael Lovelock |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2019-04-24 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 3030142159 |
Download Reality TV and Queer Identities Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines queer visibility in reality television, which is arguably the most prolific space of gay, lesbian, transgender and otherwise queer media representation. It explores almost two decades of reality programming, from Big Brother to I Am Cait, American Idol to RuPaul’s Drag Race, arguing that the specific conventions of reality TV—its intimacy and emotion, its investments in celebrity and the ideal of authenticity—have inextricably shaped the ways in which queer people have become visible in reality shows. By challenging popular judgements on reality shows as damaging spaces of queer representation, this book argues that reality TV has pioneered a unique form of queer-inclusive broadcasting, where a desire for authenticity, rather than being heterosexual, is the norm. Across all chapters, this book investigates how reality TV’s celebration of ‘compulsory authenticity’ has circulated ‘acceptable’ and ‘unacceptable’ ways of being queer, demonstrating how possibilities for queer visibility are shaped by broader anxieties and around selfhood, identity and the real in contemporary cultural life.
Author | : Ragan Fox |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2018-09-04 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1351660136 |
Download Inside Reality TV Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the summer of 2010, Ragan Fox was one of twelve people selected to participate in the twelfth season of CBS's reality program Big Brother. The show heightens everyday life performance to a theatrical state where houseguests’ performances, no matter how humdrum, are turned into televisual entertainment and commodity. Offering a rare, autobigographical, and behind-the-scenes peek behind Big Brother's curtain, Fox provides a scholarly account of the show's casting procedures, secret soundstage interactions, and viewer involvement, while investigating how the program's producers, fans, and players theatrically render indentities of racial and sexual minorities. Using autoethnography, textual analysis, and spectator commentary as research, Fox reflects on and critiques how identity is constructed on reality television, and the various ways in which people from historically oppressed groups are depicted in mass media.
Author | : Ava Laure Parsemain |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2019-04-03 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 3030148726 |
Download The Pedagogy of Queer TV Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines queer characters in popular American television, demonstrating how entertainment can educate audiences about LGBT identities and social issues like homophobia and transphobia. Through case studies of musical soap operas (Glee and Empire), reality shows (RuPaul’s Drag Race, The Prancing Elites Project and I Am Cait) and “quality” dramas (Looking, Transparent and Sense8), it argues that entertainment elements such as music, humour, storytelling and melodrama function as pedagogical tools, inviting viewers to empathise with and understand queer characters. Each chapter focuses on a particular programme, looking at what it teaches—its representation of queerness—and how it teaches this—its pedagogy. Situating the programmes in their broader historical context, this study also shows how these televisual texts exemplify a specific moment in American television.
Author | : Christopher Pullen |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2015-02-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1476621691 |
Download Documenting Gay Men Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book charts an evolution in gay identity within American reality television and documentary film. Through focusing on the performative potential of gay men, it examines the emergence of the independent gay citizen as a bold new voice rejecting subjugation within the media. Through examining productions as diverse as An American Family, Tongues United, Silverlake Life, The Real World, Paternal Instinct, Trembling Before G-D, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and many others, this book explores how gay people as teens, devoted couples, parents, inspiring individuals and influential producers have contributed to the progression of gay identity in domestic arenas. These portrayals are played out while discussing AIDS, race, religion, the development of same-sex family forms, the issues of procreation and gay marriage and the changing views of gay men as both creative producers and responsible social agents. In these forms of entertainment, gay social actors as political agents challenge dominant ideas, and invent new social worlds.
Author | : Sharon Shahaf |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 439 |
Release | : 2013-06-17 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1135889503 |
Download Global Television Formats Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Winner of the 2013 SCMS Best Edited Collection Award For decades, television scholars have viewed global television through the lens of cultural imperialism, focusing primarily on programs produced by US and UK markets and exported to foreign markets. Global Television Formats revolutionizes television studies by de-provincializing its approach to media globalization. It re-examines dominant approaches and their legacies of global/local and center/periphery, and offers new directions for understanding television’s contemporary incarnations. The chapters in this collection take up the format phenomena from around the globe, including the Middle East, Western and Eastern Europe, South and West Africa, South and East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, North America, South America, and the Caribbean. Contributors address both little known examples and massive global hits ranging from the Idol franchise around the world, to telenovelas, dance competitions, sports programming, reality TV, quiz shows, sitcoms and more. Looking to global television formats as vital for various cultural meanings, relationships, and structures, this collection shows how formats can further our understanding of television and the culture of globalization at large.
Author | : Eve Ng |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2023-09-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1978831358 |
Download Mainstreaming Gays Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Mainstreaming Gays discusses a key transitional period linking the eras of legacy and streaming, analyzing how queer production and interaction that had earlier occurred outside the mainstream was transformed by multiple converging trends: the emergence of digital media, the rising influence of fan cultures, and increasing interest in LGBTQ content within commercial media. The U.S. networks Bravo and Logo broke new ground in the early 2000s and 2010s with their channel programming, as well as bringing in a new cohort of LGBTQ digital content creators, providing unprecedented opportunities for independent queer producers, and hosting distinctive spaces for queer interaction online centered on pop culture and politics rather than dating. These developments constituted the ground from which recent developments for LGBTQ content and queer sociality online have emerged. Mainstreaming Gays is critical reading for those interested in media production, fandom, subcultures, and LGBTQ digital media.
Author | : Christopher Pullen |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2012-02-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230373313 |
Download LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Offering a critical introduction into LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) transnational identity in the media, this book examines performances and representations within documentary and fiction oriented texts. An interdisciplinary approach is put forward, revealing new potentials for non western queer identity.
Author | : Niall Brennan |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2017-08-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 3319506188 |
Download RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Shifting Visibility of Drag Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book identifies and analyzes the ways in which RuPaul’s Drag Race has reshaped the visibility of drag culture in the US and internationally, as well as how the program has changed understandings of reality TV. This edited volume illustrates how drag has become a significant aspect of LGBTQ experience and identity globally through RuPaul’s Drag Race, and how the show has reformed a media landscape in which competition and reality itself are understood as given. Taking on lenses addressing race, ethnicity, geographical origin, cultural identity, physicality and body image, and participation in drag culture across the globe, this volume offers critical, non-traditional, and first-hand perspectives on drag culture.
Author | : Ruth A. Deller |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2019-11-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1839090219 |
Download Reality Television Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Reality television is shown worldwide, features people from all walks of life and covers everything from romance to religion. It has not only changed television, but every other area of the media. So why has reality TV become such a huge phenomenon, and what is its future in an age of streaming and social media?
Author | : Su Holmes |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Reality TV |
ISBN | : 9780415317955 |
Download Understanding Reality Television Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Tracing the history of reality TV from Candid Camera to The Osbournes, Understanding Reality Television examines a range of programmes which claim to depict 'real life'.