Rachel E. Dubrofsky

The Surveillance of Women on Reality Television

Watching The Bachelor and The Bachelorette

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Produktbeschreibung

Rachel E. Dubrofsky examines the reality TV series The Bachelor and The Bachelorette in one of the first book-length feminist analysis of the reality TV genre. The research found in The Surveillance of Women on Reality TV: Watching The Bachelor and The Bachelorette meets the growing need for scholarship on the reality genre. This book asks us to be attentive to how the surveillance context of the program impacts gendered and racialized bodies.

Produktdetails

• Critical Studies in Television
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780739164983
• ISBN-10: 0739164988
• Artikelnr.: 33389399

Autorenporträt

Rachel E. Dubrofsky is assistant professor in the Department of Communication at University of South Florida.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: The "Bachelor Industry" Chapter 2 Chapter 1:
Authenticity, Whiteness, Confession, and Surveillance Chapter 3 Chapter 2:
Whiteness in the Harem Chapter 4 Chapter 3: Emotional Failure Chapter 5
Chapter 4: Excessive Emotion: Her Money Shot Chapter 6 Chapter 5:
"Therapeutics of the Self" Chapter 7 Chapter 6: Empowerment and Choice in
the Postfeminist Nirvana Chapter 8 Conclusion: The "Ideal" Woman? Chapter 9
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