The Surveillance of Women on Reality Television - Watching the Bachelor and the Bachelorette

Informationen zum Autor Rachel E. Dubrofsky is assistant professor in the Department of Communication at University of South Florida. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Dubrofsky, Rachel E. Dubrofsky, Dubrofsky Rachel E.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.07.2011
• EAN: 9780739164983
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-6498-3
• No. of pages: 151
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Critical Studies in Television; Critical Studies in Television
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society