Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture 3: L3. Unpacking Reality

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2161A/B
• Professor: Nichole Edwards

Document Summary

Pitch to lifetime: a feminist working on the bachelor" has a nervous breakdown . Based on 20-minute short lm, sequin raze (on youtube) Critics choice awards, peabody award, actress constance zimmer recently nominated for emmy. Season 2: almost half episodes were directed by women; three students from the. You can watch unreal for the same destructive women-on-women behaviour you see on the bachelor or as witty commentary on it . It shows how fake reality tv is, this show is basically narrated and edited to look real when in reality it is all constructed. Shows how the only way women can really survive is through competing and tearing down other women. Redneck, survival/wilderness, dating/appearnace, kitchen/food: all themes reinforce codes of normative gender behaviour, the dating and appearance shows often focus on women and how femininity needs to be better, wilderness shows often focus on guys and their manliness.