sexuality and gender on transatlantic reality television
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Weber, Brenda R. > (ed.)
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2014
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2014 - B
- Thesaurus
- televisie, gender, sociale klasse, identiteit, seksualiteit, bundel
- Description
- This book focuses on the gendered dimensions of reality television. Through close readings of a wide range of reality programming, from 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 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.