Book Reviews: Reality Television and Class, Reality TV, Reacting to Reality Television: Performance, Audience and Value, Makeover TV: Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity, the Makeover: Reality Television and Reflexive Audiences, TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen, True Blood: Investigating Vampires and Southern Gothic

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 124-137
Author(s):  
Christine Geraghty ◽  
Tracey Jensen ◽  
Misha Kavka ◽  
Derek Johnston ◽  
Lorna Jowett
Keyword(s):  
Reality Television ◽  
Reality Tv ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Southern Gothic ◽  
True Blood ◽  
Small Screen

scholarly journals Chasing the Public: The CBC and the Debate Over Factual Entertainment on Canadian Airwaves

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Foster
Keyword(s):  
Reality Television ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Reality Tv ◽  
The Public ◽  
Débat Public

Abstract: This article focuses on the public debate surrounding the CBC as it began to program reality TV. It highlights the tension between a public broadcaster’s popular programming and the expectations of a cultural nationalist public that seeks to hold the institution accountable. It argues for the existence of a “CBC effect” and questions whether the transnational format of reality television on Canada’s national broadcaster augurs changes in Canadian public culture.Résumé : Cet article porte sur le débat public entourant le CBC quand ce dernier a commencé à diffuser de la téléréalité. Il souligne la tension qu’engendre la programmation populiste d’un radiodiffuseur public à l’égard d’un public nationaliste qui s’attend à ce que celui-ci fasse des choix plus cultivés. L’article postule l’existence d’un « effet CBC » et se demande si le format transnational de la téléréalité telle qu’elle passe au radiodiffuseur national du Canada annonce des changements à venier dans la culture publique canadienne.

Contributions of Reality TV Consumption to College Women’s Endorsement of the Heterosexual Script and Acceptance of Sexualized Aggression

2021 ◽  
pp. 036168432110446
Author(s):  
Leanna J. Papp ◽  
L. Monique Ward ◽  
Riley A. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Longitudinal Data ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Reality Tv ◽  
Educational Programming ◽  
Prominent Feature ◽  
Healthy Relationships ◽  
Media Portrayals ◽  
Undergraduate Women

A prominent feature of mainstream television, especially reality programming, is a heterosexual script that outlines women’s and men’s traditional courtship roles. Although frequent media use is believed to produce greater acceptance of this script, existing analyses have not fully delineated contributions of scripted versus reality programming or tested these notions using a holistic heterosexual script scale. We addressed these limitations in two studies. In Study 1, 466 undergraduate women indicated their support of the heterosexual script and their consumption of popular reality programs, sitcoms, and dramas. Heavier viewing of reality programming predicted greater support for the heterosexual script, and heavier viewing of sitcoms predicted weaker support. In Study 2, we used longitudinal data to explore relations between viewing reality television, acceptance of the heterosexual script, and acceptance of sexualized aggression during undergraduate women’s first 2 years in college ( N = 244). We found that reality television consumption was not a direct predictor of acceptance of sexualized aggression but was a significant, indirect predictor through endorsement of the heterosexual script. These studies contribute to our understanding of unique media contributions to endorsement of the heterosexual script and illuminate one process by which women may come to normalize sexual mistreatment. Campus educational programming on sexuality, sexual assault, and healthy relationships may be able to intervene in this normalization through critique of the heterosexual script and media portrayals of dating and relationships.

Southern Gothic

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Visual Media ◽  
Southern Gothic ◽  
True Blood ◽  
History Of

This chapter examines the history of Southern Gothic through three recent media whose original visual imaginary delineates gothic aberrance. In the broad reach of visual media the Southern Gothic finds its most potent images and narratives. The film Trash Humpers (2009) demonstrates how the Southern Gothic story could not be told anywhere else; the TV series True Blood (2008-14) emphasizes sexuality and difference via its contemporary take on the regional genre; and the film Black Snake Moan (2006) ties these threads together through its long-standing gothic narrative of racial and sexual mores.

Escaping Reality by Watching Reality TV?

2020 ◽  
pp. 42-56
Author(s):  
Melissa Ames
Keyword(s):  
Reality Television ◽  
Reality Tv ◽  
Surveillance Culture ◽  
Identity Performance ◽  
Privacy Rights ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
Entertainment Products ◽  
Familial Expectations

Chapter Two turns to reality television, exploring three theories of emotion that explain the rise of this televisual genre in the wake of 9/11. A study of the 2000-2010 programming schedule reveals the cultural anxieties with which producers and viewers of these shows (dis)engage. Although often considered superficial, lowbrow entertainment products meant primarily for escapist purposes, this essay argues that reality television programs grapple with important societal concerns: surveillance culture and privacy rights; the pressure of identity performance in the social media era; and shifting social, domestic, and familial expectations for men and women.

Live tweeting, reality TV and the nation

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-367
Author(s):  
Mark Stewart
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Reality Tv ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
Cultural Formation ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Audience Fragmentation ◽  
The Creation ◽  
National Borders

This article argues that the live tweeting of reality television allows the creation of an imagined community, bounded by national borders. In an era of audience fragmentation and time-shifting of television engagement, live reality television encourages audiences to watch at time of broadcast; this is amplified by the move of some audience members to live-tweet the broadcast, communicating amongst themselves within a dispersed backchannel. A crucial result of the digital conversation is to reinstate the importance of the nation as a space for the reading and reception of culture. The article utilizes a discursive analysis of the concurrent Twitter conversation around the second season of The X Factor NZ in New Zealand in order to highlight the ongoing role that is played by the nation as a cultural formation in such discussions, as well as the ways that it makes understandings of national cultural identity visible.

scholarly journals Reality TV Formats: The Case of Canadian Idol

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Doris Baltruschat
Keyword(s):  
Reality Television ◽  
Reality Tv ◽  
Narrative Development ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Media Events ◽  
Mise En Scene ◽  
Online Environments

Abstract: This paper discusses narrative development and audience interactivity in reality television, with a particular focus on the “format franchising processes” involving Canadian Idol. The staging of media events, recruitment of semi-professional performers, and immersive online environments emphasize the complexities of reality format adaptation, which involves the localization of global media texts.Résumé : Cet article traite de développement narratif et d’interactivité avec le public à la télévision réalité tout en mettant un accent particulier sur les « processus de franchisage de formats » entourant Canadian Idol. La mise en scène d’événements médiatiques, le recrutement de chanteurs semi-professionnels et les environnements immersifs en ligne mettent en relief les complexités requises pour adapter un texte médiatique mondial aux particularités locales de la région où on le diffuse.

scholarly journals Reality Show in Modern System of Mass Communication (Based on Ukrainian Reality Shows)

2017 ◽  
pp. 8-18
Author(s):  
Anastasia Filonenko
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Reality Tv ◽  
Inductive Method ◽  
Late Night ◽  
Reality Show ◽  
Real People ◽  
Show Business

The purpose of our study was to understand the nature of the reality show phenomenon in the system of mass communication through analysis of Ukrainian media market of reality shows. For this purpose we have used a broad methodological base: a descriptive method for identifying the features of reality show and journalism, a bibliographic method for processing scientific sources, an inductive method to determine the functioning of reality show, the method of comparative analysis to understand relationship between journalism and reality show, historic-typological method to classify reality shows, methods of generalization and structuring to develop a modern structure of mass communication. The main results of the research are the following: we found that reality show is a product of journalistic activity; the concept of “reality show” and “reality television” is clearly determined. Reality show is a format of a television product in which the actions and emotions of true people in real-life or in specially modelled situations are observed, characterized by accomplishment of unusual actions and constant commentary on everything that happens to them. This category includes competitions, dating, makeover, etc. Reality TV is a type of television program that demonstrates non-played situations in which real people, whether ordinary citizens or politicians and stars of show business, find themselves. The value of our research is that the correlation between reality show, its types and reality TV is clearly established. Reality TV consists of: 1) reality shows; 2) studio/gaming shows (talk show, late night show, game show), 3) broadcasting events (sports, music events, awards ceremony, etc.). Reality TV belongs to the category of entertainment television. In this study the classification of reality shows has been improved, a whole series of functions of the reality show programs has been identified (entertainment, information, recreation, education, social integration and public control), it is proved that reality show has a great potential in the context of mass communication.

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