scholarly journals Looking at the Process: Examining Creative and Artistic Thinking in Fashion Designers on a Reality Television Show

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jillian Hogan ◽  
Kara Murdock ◽  
Morgan Hamill ◽  
Anastasia Lanzara ◽  
Ellen Winner
Keyword(s):  
Reality Television ◽  
Television Show ◽  
Fashion Designers

The New Labour era, and beyond: narcissism comes of age

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Hendrick
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Parent Education ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
New Labour ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Breeding Ground ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
Television Show ◽  
Parental Love ◽  
Contractual Approach

After describing New Labour's use of 'the child' as a form of human capital in social investment, and its penal ASBO programme as a breeding ground for childism, the chapter focuses on the government's innovatory ideal of disciplinary governance, encoded in neoliberal practice, to explain how, with reference to parent education, the behavioural approach to child-rearing grew to be regarded as normal and natural. The chapter discusses Supernanny, the reality television show, as an example of how, through the principles of narcissism, behaviourism and childism were popularised. The chapter argues that the effect of the neoliberal parenting industry on parent-child relations has been to negate the 'unconditional' in parental love in preference to a managerial and contractual approach that epitomises the general principles of neoliberalism and the specifics of the narcissistic temperament.

scholarly journals Care, longing, and control

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Wallenius-Korkalo
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Television Show ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Political Studies ◽  
And Control

This article analyses representations of Conservative Laestadianism in contemporary Finnish and Finnish-American popular culture. Drawing from political studies, religious studies and cultural studies, the article sheds light on the ways in which Conservative Laestadianism is present in societal debate and in the cultural imagination. Focusing on religious corporeality, the article scrutinises the embodied practices of Conservative Laestadianism and the ways in which the representations participate in making sense of gender, sexuality, and power in religious communities. Contemporary understandings in popular culture are revealed through the detailed analysis of four cultural products of different genres depicting Conservative Laestadianism: a film entitled Kielletty hedelmä (Forbidden Fruit, 2009), a novel entitled We Sinners (2012), a reality television show entitled Iholla (On the Skin, 2013), and a play entitled Taivaslaulu (Heavensong, 2015). As a synthesis of the representations of Conservative Laestadianism, the article presents a dynamic triad of care, longing, and control. Furthermore, the article raises questions about the potential of popular culture in calling for a dialogue between Conservative Laestadianism and society at large.

scholarly journals Lights, Action, Naughty Bits: A Thematic Analysis of New Zealanders’ Attitudes to Naked Attraction

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-68
Author(s):  
Angelique Nairn ◽  
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Matthews Matthews ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Television Show ◽  
Sexual Discourse ◽  
Western Discourse ◽  
Local Media ◽  
Online Comments ◽  
The Uk ◽  
New Zealanders

The sexualisation of culture has generated much debate in western discourse around its effect on the normalisation of nudity and sexual activity. The reality television show Naked Attraction has increased the dialogue around this debate after its airing, originally in the UK, and then in international territories. The show has been applauded for profiling diverse people, whether that be concerning sexual orientation, body image, gender or ethnicity. However, it has also been accused of showcasing pornography. To explore where New Zealanders’ attitudes were positioned on the show, we thematically analysed online comments from two local media entities and found that New Zealanders were positive on its nudity and approach to sexual discourse.

scholarly journals The Male Gaze or Male Gays? From Romance to Bromance through Performances of Gender and Sexuality by two of Love Island’s Favourite Characters

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio A. Silverio ◽  
Catherine Wilkinson ◽  
Samantha Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationship ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Sales Manager ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Male Gaze ◽  
Television Show ◽  
Gender Performativity ◽  
Love Stories ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Fourth Series

AbstractThis paper draws on two favourite characters from British reality television show, Love Island 2018: Jack Fincham, a former stationery sales manager, and Alex George, an Accident & Emergency [A&E] doctor, to explore how heterosexual norms are constructed and challenged. We study the romantic on-screen relationships these characters have with the female contestants, and between the two male characters themselves through the notion of ‘bromance’. Through a textual analysis of the spoken words and physical interactions between characters in episodes forming the fourth series of Love Island and analysis of social media posts and articles in popular press outlets, we use the notion of gender performativity to explore how these characters perform both hegemonic and, what we argue is, ‘threatened’ masculinity. We use the ‘Male Gaze’ to methodologically lens the performances by characters and their romantic interactions on the television show. In particular, we focus on Jack and Alex’s budding relationship and the condemning of this relationship by the public amid Alex’s termination of his romantic relationship. The decision by Alex to end this relationship led to many viewers questioning his sexuality, with specific reference to his adoration for Jack. Whilst broadly, this paper contributes to debates on the sociological potential of reality television shows, such as Love Island, its specific contribution is to a small, but growing body of international scholarship on homosocial relationships and male love stories in television and film. With this paper, we also contribute towards redressing the marginalization of women within the study of bromance.

scholarly journals Know Your Neighbour: Reality Television and Performances of the Self

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Caroline Hurley
Keyword(s):  
Reality Television ◽  
The Self ◽  
Television Show ◽  
Apartment Building ◽  
Apartment Buildings ◽  
Personal Stories

Know Your Neighbour is a proposal for a half hour reality television show in which residents of an apartment building get to know their neighbours in a light-hearted way that breaks down barriers and reveals compelling stories. The residents uncover each of their neighbour’s backstories through challenges: tricky trivia questions and a special snooping test. If they earn enough points as a group they win a break on their rent. Even if the neighbours fall short of their goal, the show helps create the beginnings of a community inside their previously disconnected building. The show’s bible demonstrates the structure of the new format. Research supports the idea that people are motivated to appear on reality television in order for a chance to define or try-out their identities within a media-obsessed culture. This is accomplished by encouraging people to share their personal stories and by assigning them a type or role that they feel comfortable performing. My format explores and applies this idea to apartment buildings in order to help people define the roles they can play within their communities.

scholarly journals The Cultural Expressions and Representation of National Identity- A Study of the Indian Singing Reality Television Show “Sa Re Ga Ma Pa”

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Taranjeet Kaur Chawla ◽  
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Shiv Shankar Sharma ◽  
Rayaz Hassan
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Internal Consistency Reliability ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Television Show ◽  
Sequential Development ◽  
Cultural Expressions ◽  
Vladimir Propp

This paper aims to understand the narrative structure of Indian singing reality television show to identify the representation of national identity. By focusing on the “Sa Re Ga Ma Pa” show format, this paper has followed the work of Vladimir Propp to examine the cultural expressions with the sequential development of the narrative plot. The convergent parallel mixed method has been using to collect quantitative and qualitative data. While using the Likert scale, the reliability of the questionnaire has been calculated and reported Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for internal consistency reliability. The quantitative data has gathered from 205 respondents and 99 episodes aired from 2017 to 2019 have analysed in qualitative data, which is followed by data analysis through IBM SPSS Statistics. By analysing the quantitative and qualitative data this paper finds that the cultural expressions reveal the notion of national identity through the representation of ‘ordinary’ people and emphasis on performances by focusing on the structured format of Indian reality television. The paper indicates the ways where the viewers of the society can connect with cultural expressions through the genre of reality television.

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