Seeking ghosts

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-40
Author(s):  
Cecilia Sayad
Keyword(s):  
Reality Television ◽  
Material World ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
Web Forum ◽  
Spirit Photography ◽  
Ghost Hunters

This chapter examines the use of audiovisual and other indexical technology to capture evidence of supernatural phenomena in ghost-hunting reality television shows like Most Haunted, Ghost Hunters, and Paranormal State, among many others. It explores these programs’ connections with early practices such as spirit photography and phantasmagoria. The chapter also examines the ways in which the shows invite interaction with viewers through web forum discussions and live broadcasts. At the basis of this investigation is the question of how photography and film are seen to reveal hidden aspects of the material world and our expectations about the evidential power of images.

The Affective Politics of Citizenship in Reality Television Programs Featuring North Korean Resettlers

Cultura ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-163
Author(s):  
Soochul KIM ◽  
Kyung Han YOU
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Civic Identity ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Television Shows

This study examines the dynamics of cultural politics in reality television shows featuring North Korean resettlers (NKR2) in South Korea. As existing studies focus on the role of media representation reproducing a dominant ideology for the resettlers, this paper focuses on the specific media rituals of NKR2 programs, which can be seen as a product of the neoliberalist localization process of the global media industry. In doing so, this paper demonstrates how NKR2 programs interrupt the current dynamics of emotions in regard to North Korean resettlers in South Korea. We argue that in shaping civic identity as an effect of the NKR2 show, cultural politics of citizenship in South Korea on North Korean resettlers serve the formation of relatively conservative and sexist civic identity.

“Reality” Birth: Marketing Fear to Childbearing Women

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith A. Lothian ◽  
Ann Grauer
Keyword(s):  
Reality Television ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
Childbearing Women

In this column, the authors examine the effect of “reality” television shows on expectant parents’ fears of childbirth.

“Let's Get This Party Started!”: An Analysis of Health Risk Behavior on MTV Reality Television Shows

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 1382-1390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. Flynn ◽  
David Morin ◽  
Sung-Yeon Park ◽  
Alexandru Stana
Keyword(s):  
Health Risk ◽  
Risk Behavior ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Health Risk Behavior ◽  
Television Shows

scholarly journals The X Factor and reality television: beyond good and evil

Popular Music ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Graham
Keyword(s):  
Reality Television ◽  
Reality Tv ◽  
Cultural Impact ◽  
Music Competition ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
British Music ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
Potential Pressure

AbstractDespite huge popularity and lasting cultural impact, reality television shows such as The X Factor, a British music competition that started screening in 2004, are seen by many as a cultural nadir. However, in this article I argue that, while reading reality TV as an index of an increasingly superficial, market-based culture makes a great deal of sense, it doesn't tell the whole story. Using the particular music-based dramas of The X Factor as a case study, I explore ways in which this show and populist reality television in general might be seen to embody both the predicaments and potential pressure points of contemporary neoliberal culture.

scholarly journals GIMMICK IN THE REALITY SHOW RUMAH UYA

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-24
Author(s):  
Dina Dwika Oktora
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Sampling Techniques ◽  
Sound Effect ◽  
Reality Show ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Descriptive Approach

This research focuses on the gimmick in reality television shows, namely the Rumah Uya program which is broadcasted by ANTV station. This research uses a qualitative descriptive approach, data collection uses purposive sampling techniques, and data analysis uses content analysis. The results showed that the gimmick added to this event was not only a sound effect, but also create the acting of talents with dialogues that tended to be vulgar and showed impolite behavior. This contradicts with the applicable broadcasting regulations, namely the policies set out in the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (Komisi Penyiaran Indonesia) regulation. Adding gimmicks to the reality show program can be done as long as it does not conflict with decency, law, and applicable regulations.

scholarly journals What Not To Wear Policing The Body Through Fashion Criticism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Rothschild
Keyword(s):  
Reality Television ◽  
Critical Distance ◽  
The Body ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Disciplinary Power ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
Model Project ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Clothing Choices

Earlier studies investigating reality fashion television revealed that while participants and audiences are aware of mechanisms of surveillance and shame; scholarship also documented that critical distance from the program’s methods are not necessarily ideologically liberating for participants or audience. Indeed, as I argue and document in this current study, participants in reality fashion television shows remain caught in a pernicious power dynamic that is part and parcel of these shows. Specifically, by exploring examples from three popular fashion reality television programs—America’s Next Top Model, Project Runway, and Fashion Police—and by considering theories of fashion, gender, and power, I question the problematic ways in which popular media talk about fashion and clothing choices. Further, by drawing on Michel Foucault’s concepts of disciplinary power, I critically examine the judgments and assumptions that fashion critics impose on participants whose sartorial appearance they may find wanting. More generally, my study investigates the limitations of the widely accepted belief that fashion is a form of self- expression while I end with some more positive examples of fashion advocacy.

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