Reality TV and Queer Identities

Reality TV and Queer Identities
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 9783030142155
ISBN-13 : 3030142159
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Book Synopsis Reality TV and Queer Identities by : Michael Lovelock

Download or read book Reality TV and Queer Identities written by Michael Lovelock and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines queer visibility in reality television, which is arguably the most prolific space of gay, lesbian, transgender and otherwise queer media representation. It explores almost two decades of reality programming, from Big Brother to I Am Cait, American Idol to RuPaul’s Drag Race, arguing that the specific conventions of reality TV—its intimacy and emotion, its investments in celebrity and the ideal of authenticity—have inextricably shaped the ways in which queer people have become visible in reality shows. By challenging popular judgements on reality shows as damaging spaces of queer representation, this book argues that reality TV has pioneered a unique form of queer-inclusive broadcasting, where a desire for authenticity, rather than being heterosexual, is the norm. Across all chapters, this book investigates how reality TV’s celebration of ‘compulsory authenticity’ has circulated ‘acceptable’ and ‘unacceptable’ ways of being queer, demonstrating how possibilities for queer visibility are shaped by broader anxieties and around selfhood, identity and the real in contemporary cultural life.


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