Scripted reality and authenticity:
Analyse an episode of reality tv in terms of ‘authenticity’ and performance. How is ‘reality’ constructed? What is presented as ‘real’ or ‘ordinary’ and what values or assumptions lie behind this? How does the show reveal its investment in the ‘real’ and what is at stake in this?
If you want you can also see the below texts:
We will use the Scripted Reality and Reality TV genres as a site for examining how the media constructs classed identities and how these identities are (and are not) authenticated, given value or delegitimised.
The set text for the session offers an overview of the main issues we will discuss this week. Focus closely on how the author conceptualises ‘performativity’ and ‘authenticity’.
Set text:
Holmes, S., 2010. Reality TV and ‘Ordinary’ People: Re-visiting Celebrity, Performance, and Authenticity.”. Trans-reality Television: The Transgression of Reality, Genre, Politics and Audience in Reality TV, pp.251-74.
Further reading:
Holmes, S. (2006) Chapter 3 ‘It’s a jungle out there!’, in Holmes, S., Redmond, S. (eds.) Framing celebrity : New directions in celebrity culture. London: Routledge, pp. 45-65.
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Woods, Faye (2012) ‘Classed Femininity, Performativity, and Camp in British Structured Reality Programming’, Television & New Media XX(X) 1–18
Holmes, Su, and Sean Redmond. ‘Introduction’, Framing celebrity: New directions in celebrity culture. Routledge, 2012.
Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi (2013), ‘Class, gender, and the docusoap: The Only Way Is Essex,’ The Routledge Companion to Media & Gender, edited by Cynthia Carter, Linda Steiner, Lisa McLaughlin
Helen Wood (2016). The politics of hyperbole on Geordie Shore: Class, gender, youth and excess. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 1–17.
Graefer, Anne (2014). ‘Charlotte makes me lafe [sic] sooo much’: Online laughter, affect, and femininity in Geordie Shore’. Journal of European Popular Culture Volume 5 Number 2.
Skeggs, Bev (2005) ‘The Making of Class and Gender through Visualizing Moral Subject Formation’. Sociology, Vol 39 Issue 5, pp. 965-982
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