COMM 123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Reality Television, Metrosexual, Dramatization

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Queens for a day: queer eye for the straight guy and the. Moves beyond a conventional critique of gay stereotyping on bravo"s show queer eye for the straight guy. Puts gay cultural expertise to work to reform heterosexual masculinity that is compatible with the neoliberal moment. Issue: newly public acknowledgement of gay taste and consumer expertise. "crisis of masculinity": requires that heterosexual men must now attend to their relationships, image, and domestic habitus. Queen for a day - pitted women against each other in a competition for whose life history was most miserable. Queer eye for the straight guy - invites domestically challenged heterosexual men to adopt gay men"s perspective on style, grooming, cuisine, manners to be. Encouraged to adopt gay male consumption habits in order to become a better heterosexual. Most critiques of the show focus on stereotyping. Significance: far broader than focus on gay representation allows.

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