GSWS 318 Lecture 8: Week 8 Lecture Notes

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Gender Sexuality & Wom St
• Course: GSWS 318
• Professor: Eirini Kotsovili

Document Summary

Typologies of celebrity: film, television, reality tv celebrity. Individualized viewing experience: more distance between viewer and screen, tv, a domestic technology that creates a sense of familiarity, immediacy and intimacy, film star, a commodity to market films and attract audiences. Historical links to gender & consumption: since inception, tv a medium to promote consumption, tv personalities integral. Lucille ball i love lucy : feminine mode of address, catered to housewife consumer, tv always speaking to the ordinary". Reality tv is a genre that produces a reliable supply of interchangeable celebrities for the television audience . What is reality tv: umbrella term for unscripted or reality-based programming, emphasis on genre-mixing", ordinary people, use of realistic" filmmaking codes and conventions, shares tv legacy of liveness and immediacy. Producing reality tv celebrity: key: reorganization of cultural boundaries between audiences and producers, audiences have access to mechanisms of representation, can become celebrities too, downplays work" of celebrity in favour of personality".