Klein Amanda Ann Klein

Millennials Killed the Video Star (eBook, PDF)

MTV's Transition to Reality Programming

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Produktbeschreibung

Between 1995 and 2000, the number of music videos airing on MTV dropped by 36 percent. As an alternative to the twenty-four-hour video jukebox the channel had offered during its early years, MTV created an original cycle of scripted reality shows, including Laguna Beach, The Hills, The City, Catfish, and Jersey Shore, which were aimed at predominantly white youth audiences. In Millennials Killed the Video Star Amanda Ann Klein examines the historical, cultural, and industrial factors leading to MTV's shift away from music videos to reality programming in the early 2000s and 2010s. Drawing on interviews with industry workers from programs such as The Real World and Teen Mom, Klein demonstrates how MTV generated a coherent discourse on youth and identity by intentionally leveraging stereotypes about race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Klein explores how this production cycle, which showcased a variety of ways of being in the world, has played a role in identity construction in contemporary youth culture-ultimately shaping the ways in which Millennial audiences of the 2000s thought about, talked about, and embraced a variety of identities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478012870
• Artikelnr.: 66282951

Autorenporträt

Amanda Ann Klein

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. What Killed the Video Star?  1
1. "It's Videos, Fool": A Targeted History of MTV (1981–2004)   24
2. "This Is the True Story . . .": The Real World and MTV's Turn to
Identity (1992–)  57
3. "She's Gonna Always Be Known at the Girl Who Didn't Go to Paris": Can-Do
and At-Risk White Girls on MTV (2004–2013)  89
4. "If You Don't Tan, You're Pale": The Regional and Ethnic Other on MTV
(2009–2013)  124
5. "That Moment Is Here, Whether I Like It or Not": When MTV's Programming
Fails (2013–2014)  153
Conclusion. Catfish and the Future of MTV's Reality Programming (2012–) 
173
Appendix A. MTV Reality Series since 1981  189
Appendix B. Other Television Series Discussed in This Book  193
Notes  197
References  213
Index  233