Category: Reality TV
DOES TRANSFORMATIONAL MAKEOVER TV IN THE 21ST CENTURY PROMOTE A SINGULAR WESTERN STANDARD OF BEAUTY? by Sara Heritage
Described as a “make-under” reality show, Snog Marry Avoid has been subject to scholarly debate...
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LOVE ISLAND, AFTER THE SUN HAS GONE DOWN by Lyndsay Duthie
ITV’s Love Island, where gorgeous singletons compete to find love, was the surprise reality hit of...
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EMMA CORONEL—FASHION DESIGNER, PAGEANT WINNER, REALITY STAR…NARCO WIFE by Toby Miller
You may have read about or seen VH1’s reality show Cartel Crew, which began in January and is...
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FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS: PART 3, ‘DON’T GO INTO THE BASEMENT’ by Kim Akass
My last blog for CSTonline (a response to Toby Miller’s first blog of this academic year) talked...
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MY SUMMER OF LOVE…..ISLAND by Nektaria McWilliams
The Royal Wedding kick-started, but by no means overshadowed the long, hot, English summer of...
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JOEY ESSEX TALKS NEOLIBERALISM: REALITY TV AND LEGITIMATE TELEVISION by Kenneth Longden
“The judgement of quality is always situated. That is to say, somebody makes the judgement from...
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REMEMBERING GOGGLEBOX’S LEON BERNICOFF: A BEACON OF HOPE AND PROGRESSIVE ATTITUDES IN THE ERA OF IMPENDING BREXIT by Stefania Marghitu
June and Leon Bernicoff, a progressive Liverpool couple married for over 60 years, were never your...
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A CRISIS IN BBC DRAMA? OR WHY I STOPPED WORRYING AND LOVED REALITY TV BY Elke Weissmann
Have you been watching Doctor Foster? Or Rellik? Or Strike? No? Me neither. Doctor Foster...
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BFI Media Conference 2017, 29-30 June, BFI Southbank, London, UK
The BFI Media Conference is a unique event for teachers of film and media at 16+ and in HE,...
Read MoreCFP: InMedia, the French Journal of Media studies – DOCUMENTARY AND ENTERTAINMENT
CALL FOR PAPERS – InMedia, the French Journal of Media studies DOCUMENTARY AND ENTERTAINMENT The purpose of this special issue of InMedia is to further the understanding of the documentary by linking it to the notion of...
Read MoreCFP: Flow Volume 23 Special Issue: Media, Activism, and Politics in/for the Age of Trump
Media played an integral, deeply complicated role in the recent presidential campaign, with Donald Trump’s candidacy and win fundamentally transforming the relationship between the media, culture, and politics. ...
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BIG BROTHER’S IDENTITY CRISIS by Michael Lovelock
Watching the seventeenth series of Big Brother UK, broadcast on Channel Five this summer, and...
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