Del i serien Critical Studies in Television

Surveillance of Women on Reality Television

Watching The Bachelor and The Bachelorette

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2011-06-17
Mått163 x 242 x 18 mm
Vikt422 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Studies in Television
Antal sidor164
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739164983

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Chapter 1 Introduction: The "Bachelor Industry" Chapter 2 Chapter 1: Authenticity, Whiteness, Confession, and Surveillance Chapter 3 Chapter 2: Whiteness in the Harem Chapter 4 Chapter 3: Emotional Failure Chapter 5 Chapter 4: Excessive Emotion: Her Money Shot Chapter 6 Chapter 5: "Therapeutics of the Self" Chapter 7 Chapter 6: Empowerment and Choice in the Postfeminist Nirvana Chapter 8 Conclusion: The "Ideal" Woman? Chapter 9 Bibliography

The work aims to study media representations of women in a particular genre, reality television. It contains depictions of women based on gender and race, two categories of analysis that make sense of natural power relations and hierarchical differences. The author fully achieves her objective to provide a thorough analysis of the American reality show The Bachelor and its spin-off The Bachelorette. The choice of these programs, broadcast in prime time on ABC, is warranted by their success with the public, as evidenced by their longevity and large viewership. The choice of shows is all the more relevant as they inscribe women into a heterosexual group: the norms of femininity can be studied with respect to their male counterparts, thereby avoiding re-substantivation attempts such as those the author wishes to deconstruct. . . .The research is based on a solid theoretical framework, which articulates the work of cultural studies through Foucauldian methods. . . .Dubrofsky delivers a detailed analysis of the television devices embedded in a characteristic of contemporary pragmatic approaches to media studies. The book reflects the author’s mastery of the material and vast knowledge of this type of television.