Reality Gendervision : Sexuality and Gender on Transatlantic Reality Television /

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 que...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Weber, Brenda R., 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Duke University Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Könsroller på TV.
TV-program.
Reality-TV.
Dokusåpor.
Könsidentitet > på tv.
Könsroller på tv.
Sex role on television.
Gender identity on television.
Reality television programs.
Ethnicity.
Sexuality.
Image of men.
Image of women.
Gender roles.
Radio & TV > soap operas > documentaries > United States > Great Britain.
Etnicitet.
Sexualitet.
Mansbilden.
Kvinnobilden.
Könsroller.
Radio & TV > såpoperor > dokumentärskildringar > Förenta staterna > Storbritannien.
Fernsehsendung
Geschlechterrolle
Reality-TV
Rôle selon le sexe à la television.
Identite sexuelle à la television.
Grossbritannien
USA
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Trash talk: the gender politics of reality television / Brenda R. Weber
  • The pleasures and perils in being seen
  • 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 the transatlantic politics of self-making / Brenda R. Weber
  • Wrecked: programming celesbian reality / Dana Heller
  • Citizenship, ethnicity, and (trans)national identity
  • 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
  • Mediated freak shows and cautionary tales 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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