Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Reality Television, Participatory Theory, Femininity
16 Mar 2018
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Feel free to use first person, tone like the one used in discussion posts. Don"t have to pick back to back episodes, but would be easier to do bc if covering a story arc, it flows better. Pick shows you know aren"t good in terms of diversity. Watch it knowing its scripted, or put into scenes allowing for certain things to happen. Kardashians: entertaining, want to look away but cant (car crash), we like watching train wrecks, part of the appeal and intention behind reality tv. Invited to judge lower class people and ridiculous elite people; were invited as viewers to feel morally superior then them because of the ways the shows are produced and edited. Entertaining, shallow production value and in terms of whats being presented, have gendered implications and aspects, femininity either explicitly addressed or implicitly shown. Women pitted against other wedding (i. e wedding shows) placing too much importance on the wedding day.
