For a foreigner in the UK, the most telling part of this observational documentary are British households’ responses to recent political events.
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Gogglebox: A Crash Course on Personal Politics in the UK
Mutants from the Cultural Gene Pool: Reality Parodies on Kroll Show
Comedy Central's new sketch comedy program Kroll Show offers an infinite regression of media industry meta-discourses, recreating a dominant reading position that masquerades as oppositional.
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Reality Gendervision Conference CFP
Reality Gendervision: Sexuality and Gender on Reality TV Conference, on April 26-27, 2013, at Indiana University.
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Watching the World’s Amazing Races
What I find frustrating about the show is not simply that it ends up Othering the world, but that it could be so much better. It’s like a B student who writes occasionally brilliant sentences, yet who isn’t trying hard enough.
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The State of Reality TV: Producing Reality on Joan & Melissa
WE's new series, produced by and starring Joan & Melissa Rivers draws attention to the artifice of reality TV, but in the fourth episode, the mask slips and reveals something that may be...possibly...perhaps..."real"...
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The State of Reality TV: When in the World is Project Runway?
While the basic format of Project Runway has made its way to other countries, its scheduling model has been lost in translation.
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The State of Reality TV: The Pain of Watching The Bachelor
This season is painful to watch, but not in a fun, carnivalesque way. Rather, the pain seems to be much more serious and reveals the emotional trauma that we can experience when we blindly submit ourselves to normative ideas of patriarchy and the nuclear family.
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Sifting Through the Trash: Guided Spectatorship at the Maury Show
The most memorable part of being a Maury audience member was learning how the show achieves such a consistently united, cacophonous reaction from its audience: through coaching from the production crew.
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Dancing with Democracy
While controversy is nothing new for reality TV, the political overtones of Bristol Palin's run on Dancing with the Stars illuminate the genre's tenuous relationship with the principles of democracy.
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