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Author : Laura J. Lemburg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (182 download)
Download or read book Exploring Gender Stereotypes in Reality Television written by Laura J. Lemburg and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Riggs
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780737761955
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Reality TV written by Thomas Riggs and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2013 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the social effects of reality television and the issues surrounding the genre, including if it has lowered television standards, if it exploits its reality television personalities, and if it has helped to bring diversity to television.
Author : Olivia Biondi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Gender Stereotypes in Reality TV written by Olivia Biondi and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ho-Ying Holly Chung
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781361238530
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (385 download)
Download or read book Language and Gender Representations in the Reality Television Show Survivor written by Ho-Ying Holly Chung and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Language and Gender Representations in the Reality Television Show Survivor: the Amazon" by Ho-ying, Holly, Chung, 鍾可盈, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract of thesis entitled Language and Gender Representations in the Reality Television Show Survivor: the Amazon submitted by Chung Ho-ying, Holly For the Degree of Master of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong in August 2005 This thesis explores the revised representations of stereotypical masculinity and femininity in the American reality television show, Survivor: the Amazon (2002). Reality television has experienced an all-time high since its resurgence in the late twentieth century. Academic study of this genre is mainly found in communication studies, political science and sociology. Few attempts were made to discuss the relationship between language and gender representations on reality television. My study conducts a discourse analysis on how the images of a successful male and female survivor are created by Survivor: the Amazon. The data comprise the excerpted transcripts of the sixteen episodes. Gender representations in the modern media are far more complex and less stereotyped than in the past. The show's re-creating gender stereotypes, such as the men's having a better spatial sense and the women's being physically weaker, does not necessarily mean that conventional ideas of gender are being kept intact. My study argues that re-evaluations of masculinity and femininity can be done through examining the editing choices the show producers make. This thesis contributes to the study of language and gender representations in the media by opening the door to alternative interpretations of familiar gender stereotypes. It also conveys a message that watching television programmes with critical eyes is the current trend towards the complex media messages nowadays. The study analyzes gender representations in three aspects: survival skills, leadership and the forming of relationships and strategies. It shows that some very stereotypical gender representations are still used but the messages conveyed by them are being re-negotiated and re-constructed. The conventional ideas that masculinity was/is laden with positive attributes whilst femininity indicated/indicates powerlessness are being challenged by the show. Typical masculinity, with features like aggressiveness and competitiveness, is depicted as less favored no matter whether it is a man or a woman who shows such qualities. On the other hand, cooperativeness and the building of mutually-beneficial relationships, which are normally associated with femininity, are valued and propagated by the show as attributes suitable for the representation of a successful "survivor." The idea of typical femininity, traditionally loaded with weak qualities like subservience and weakness, is confronted by the show. Femininity is depicted in the show as a masquerade strategically used by the women who knows the skill of manipulation. This study suggests that conventional modes of masculinity and femininity may still be maintained in the media so long as they are adjusted to the contemporary ways of living. The meanings of gender and sexuality in the popular media nowadays are increasingly up for to change. (424 words) DOI: 10.5353/th_b3580934 Subjects: Sex role on television Language and sex
Author : David S. Escoffery
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147660228X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book How Real Is Reality TV? written by David S. Escoffery and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American viewers are attracted to what they see as the non-scripted, unpredictable freshness of reality television. But although the episodes may not be scripted, the shows are constructed within a deliberately designed framework, reflecting societal values. The political, economic and personal issues of reality TV are in many ways simply an exaggerated version of everyday life, allowing us to identify (perhaps more closely than we care to admit) with the characters onscreen. With 16 essays from scholars around the world, this volume discusses the notion of representation in reality television. It explores how both audiences and producers negotiate the gulf between representations and truth in reality shows such as Survivor, The Apprentice, Big Brother, The Nanny, American Idol, Extreme Makeover, Joe Millionaire and The Amazing Race. Various identity categories and character types found in these shows are discussed and the accuracy of their television portrayal examined. Dealing with the concept of reality, audience reception, gender roles, minority portrayal and power issues, the book provides an in-depth look at what we see, or think we see, in "reality" TV. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author : Danielle J. Lindemann, PhD
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374720967
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book True Story written by Danielle J. Lindemann, PhD and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 by Esquire A sociological study of reality TV that explores its rise as a culture-dominating medium—and what the genre reveals about our attitudes toward race, gender, class, and sexuality What do we see when we watch reality television? In True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us, the sociologist and TV-lover Danielle J. Lindemann takes a long, hard look in the “funhouse mirror” of this genre. From the first episodes of The Real World to countless rose ceremonies to the White House, reality TV has not just remade our entertainment and cultural landscape (which it undeniably has). Reality TV, Lindemann argues, uniquely reflects our everyday experiences and social topography back to us. Applying scholarly research—including studies of inequality, culture, and deviance—to specific shows, Lindemann layers sharp insights with social theory, humor, pop cultural references, and anecdotes from her own life to show us who we really are. By taking reality TV seriously, True Story argues, we can better understand key institutions (like families, schools, and prisons) and broad social constructs (such as gender, race, class, and sexuality). From The Bachelor to Real Housewives to COPS and more (so much more!), reality programming unveils the major circuits of power that organize our lives—and the extent to which our own realities are, in fact, socially constructed. Whether we’re watching conniving Survivor contestants or three-year-old beauty queens, these “guilty pleasures” underscore how conservative our society remains, and how steadfastly we cling to our notions about who or what counts as legitimate or “real.” At once an entertaining chronicle of reality TV obsession and a pioneering work of sociology, True Story holds up a mirror to our society: the reflection may not always be pretty—but we can’t look away.
Author : Jervette R. Ward
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813575087
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Real Sister written by Jervette R. Ward and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Real Housewives of Atlanta to Flavor of Love, reality shows with predominantly black casts have often been criticized for their negative representation of African American women as loud, angry, and violent. Yet even as these programs appear to be rehashing old stereotypes of black women, the critiques of them are arguably problematic in their own way, as the notion of “respectability” has historically been used to police black women’s behaviors. The first book of scholarship devoted to the issue of how black women are depicted on reality television, Real Sister offers an even-handed consideration of the genre. The book’s ten contributors—black female scholars from a variety of disciplines—provide a wide range of perspectives, while considering everything from Basketball Wives to Say Yes to the Dress. As regular viewers of reality television, these scholars are able to note ways in which the genre presents positive images of black womanhood, even as they catalog a litany of stereotypes about race, class, and gender that it tends to reinforce. Rather than simply dismissing reality television as “trash,” this collection takes the genre seriously, as an important touchstone in ongoing cultural debates about what constitutes “trashiness” and “respectability.” Written in an accessible style that will appeal to reality TV fans both inside and outside of academia, Real Sister thus seeks to inspire a more nuanced, thoughtful conversation about the genre’s representations and their effects on the black community.
Author : Donnetrice C. Allison
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498519334
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Black Women's Portrayals on Reality Television written by Donnetrice C. Allison and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically analyzes the portrayals of Black women in current reality television. Audiences are presented with a multitude of images of Black women fighting, arguing, and cursing at one another in this manufactured world of reality television. This perpetuation of negative, insidious racial and gender stereotypes influences how the U.S. views Black women. This stereotyping disrupts the process in which people are able to appreciate cultural and gender difference. Instead of celebrating the diverse symbols and meaning making that accompanies Black women's discourse and identities, reality television scripts an artificial or plastic image of Black women that reinforces extant stereotypes. This collection's contributors seek to uncover examples in reality television shows where instantiations of Black women's gendered, racial, and cultural difference is signified and made sinister.
Author : Colette Dowling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671733346
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (333 download)
Download or read book The Cinderella Complex written by Colette Dowling and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Cinderella Complex" offers women a real opportunity to achieve the emotional independence that means so much more than a new job or a new love. It can help you no matter what your age or your goals. You cannot read it without changing the way you think - and maybe the way you live.
Author : Stuart Lenig
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Bizarre World of Reality Television written by Stuart Lenig and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do reality television programs shape our view of the world and what we perceive as real and normal? This book explores the bizarre and highly controversial world of reality television, including its early history, wide variety of subject matter, and social implications. In recent decades, reality television shows ranging from Keeping up with the Kardashians to Duck Dynasty have become increasingly popular. Why are these "unscripted" programs irresistible to millions of viewers? And what does the nearly universal success of reality shows say about American culture? This book covers more than 100 major and influential reality programs past and present, discussing the origins and past of reality programming, the contemporary social and economic conditions that led to the rise of reality shows, and the ways in which the most successful shows achieve popularity with both male and female demographics or appeal to specific, targeted niche audiences. The text addresses reality TV within five, easy-to-identify content categories: competition shows, relationship/love-interest shows, real people or alternative lifestyle and culture shows, transformation shows, and international programming. By examining modern reality television, a topic of great interest for a wide variety of readers, this book also discusses cultural and social norms in the United States, including materialism, unrealistic beauty ideals, gender roles and stereotypes in society, dynamics of personal relationships, teenage lifestyles and issues, and the branding of people for financial gain and wider viewership.
Author : Ragan Fox
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351660136
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Inside Reality TV written by Ragan Fox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Offering a rare, autobiographical, and behind-the-scenes peek behind Big Brother's theatrical 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 identities of racial and sexual minorities. Using autoethnography, textual analysis, and spectator commentary as research, Inside Reality TV 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 : Alison F. Slade
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739185659
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Reality Television written by Alison F. Slade and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reality television remains a pervasive form of television programming within our culture. The new mantra is go big or go home, be weird or be invisible. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty, for example,are arguably two of the most compelling reality television programs currently airing because of their uniqueness and ability to transcend traditional boundaries in this genre. Reality Television: Oddities of Culture seeks to explore not the mundane reality programs, but rather those programs that illustrate the odd, unique or peculiar aspects of our society. This anthology will explore such programs across the categories of culture, gender, and celebrity.
Author : L. Elizabeth Zollner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Scripting the Unscripted written by L. Elizabeth Zollner and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: Since 2000, there has been an explosion of "reality," or unscripted, television shows in a variety of formats. The series in which new societies are created in isolation appeared almost immediately to be influenced by certain identity constructs, particularly gender and sexual orientation. Audiences came to these shows with definite expectations already in place. I intend in this study to determine why this is so and what those expectations are. Survivor, the germinal presentation of this genre, has as its motto "Outwit, Outplay, Outlast." However, as the show has developed through many iterations, the ability to literally survive in a hostile environment has been eclipsed by what is now called "the social game" by contestant, viewers, producers and observers of the phenomenon. Because of cultural stereotypes about gender, amateur review writers, along with regular viewers who frequent internet communications spaces, began to remark on how women win (when they do) compared to how men win, and to comment upon the various player behaviors and strategies in terms of sexual orientation, race, age and other constructs. Because I was hooked in the first Survivor series, and subsequently became interested in Big Brother as well, I searched for information online and discovered the explosion of discussions. Despite all the other aspects of, and activities in, these games, the large majority of the texts seemed to center upon identity constructs. Although there is a great deal of strategy to observe and discuss, even that was frequently couched in what a viewer could expect of a person of given gender or sexual orientation. It wasn't long before I began to perceive both the programs and the writing generated by them as texts that could be analyzed in terms of rhetorical appeals. Certain texts which might be expected to demonstrate credibility were ignored in favor of emotional reinforcement. Viewers and reviewers seemed most pleased with, and attributed the most credibility to, those speech acts and behaviors which resonated with their values and beliefs systems, regardless of their effectiveness I found this trend interesting enough, and distressing enough, to examine in depth to learn how people read the texts of strategy-genre reality television. In general, there is a complete lack of critical viewing and no application of logic except by academics and journalists. Average viewers reject whatever does not match their belief system, even if that behavior wins the game. Feelings have eclipsed all else as the standard of credibility and value. I conclude that credibility may only be derived from a text when feelings match viewer values. Of paramount importance in matching these values are the behaviors of the players, in that they must meet expectations in stereotype and tradition, and of course, the gender and sexual orientation of the winner.
Author : Jennifer L. Pozner
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 1580053750
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Reality Bites Back written by Jennifer L. Pozner and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly every night on every major network,"unscripted" (but carefully crafted) "reality" TV shows routinely glorify retrograde stereotypes that most people would assume got left behind 35 years ago. In Reality Bites Back, media critic Jennifer L. Pozner aims a critical, analytical lens at a trend most people dismiss as harmless fluff. She deconstructs reality TV's twisted fairytales to demonstrate that far from being simple "guilty pleasures," these programs are actually guilty of fomenting gender-war ideology and significantly affecting the intellectual and political development of this generation's young viewers. She lays out the cultural biases promoted by reality TV about gender, race, class, sexuality, and consumerism, and explores how those biases shape and reflect our cultural perceptions of who we are, what we're valued for, and what we should view as "our place" in society. Smart and informative, Reality Bites Back arms readers with the tools they need to understand and challenge the stereotypes reality TV reinforces and, ultimately, to demand accountability from the corporations responsible for this contemporary cultural attack on three decades of feminist progress.
Author : Jennifer Pozner
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 1580052657
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Reality Bites Back written by Jennifer Pozner and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly every night on every major network, “unscripted” (but carefully crafted) “reality” TV shows routinely glorify retrograde stereotypes that most people would assume got left behind 35 years ago. In Reality Bites Back, media critic Jennifer L. Pozner aims a critical, analytical lens at a trend most people dismiss as harmless fluff. She deconstructs reality TV’s twisted fairytales to demonstrate that far from being simple “guilty pleasures,” these programs are actually guilty of fomenting gender-war ideology and significantly affecting the intellectual and political development of this generation’s young viewers. She lays out the cultural biases promoted by reality TV about gender, race, class, sexuality, and consumerism, and explores how those biases shape and reflect our cultural perceptions of who we are, what we’re valued for, and what we should view as “our place” in society. Smart and informative, Reality Bites Back arms readers with the tools they need to understand and challenge the stereotypes reality TV reinforces and, ultimately, to demand accountability from the corporations responsible for this contemporary cultural attack on three decades of feminist progress.
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (945 download)
Download or read book Fear Factor -- is There Also a Gender Factor? written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rachel E. Dubrofsky
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739169254
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Surveillance of Women on Reality Television written by Rachel E. Dubrofsky and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-06-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel E. Dubrofsky examines the reality TV series The Bachelor and The Bachelorette in one of the first book-length feminist analysis of the reality TV genre. The research found in The Surveillance of Women on Reality TV: Watching The Bachelor and The Bachelorette meets the growing need for scholarship on the reality genre. This book asks us to be attentive to how the surveillance context of the program impacts gendered and racialized bodies. Dubrofsky takes up issues that cut across the U.S. cultural landscape: the use of surveillance in the creation of entertainment products, the proliferation of public confession and its configuration as a therapeutic tool, the ways in which women's displays of emotion are shown on television, the changing face of popular feminist discourse (notions of choice and empowerment), and the recentering of whiteness in popular media.
