COMM 123 Lecture 1: Reality TV Class (makeover shows, sender, neoliberalism)
23 Mar 2018
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Since then we have seen pretty steady growth in genre. Last few years this growth has tapered off. Academy added reality tv as a genre to emmy awards. Prior to this there was no genre for this. "reality tv competition" (2003 (2008) outstanding host for reality competition program. Genre that is cheap, easily reproducible, easily syndicated (macdonald, adorno, horkheimer. Issue- a lot of us are busy watching reality tv. What kinds of grounds are we judging reality tv. We still have to wrestle with influence - remember that we don"t have much evidence that if people wer eonly exposed to high culture they would be better people. Textual analysis of "queer eye of the straight guy" doesn"t do additional research (sender) More similar to macdonald, adorno, horkheimer than it is to fiske or. More similar to macdonald, adorno, horkheimer than it is to fiske or rand.
