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Tag: Normality

Children Playing in Hollywood

May 2, 2007 Judith Halberstam / University of Southern California 6 comments

by: Judith Halberstam / University of Southern California
Let’s see how Little Children manages to sneak normativity into the plot as resolution for the problem of the community enforcement of …normativity!

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Prime Time Bullies

March 9, 2007 Gareth Palmer / University of Salford 19 comments

by: Gareth Palmer / University of Salford
In programmes ranging from Extreme Makeover to Ten Years Younger our flexible selves are seen to be empowered by experts striving to bring forth ‘the real you.’

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Spouse Exchanges: I Know the Perfect People …

January 13, 2006 Megan Mullen / University of Wisconsin-Parkside 5 comments

by: Megan Mullen / University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Is the families selecting process to participate in reality TV showing American entertainment preferences? Are you and your family eligible?

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When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Boy: Transgeneration‘s Meditation on the “Real”

November 18, 2005 Shana Agid / Sarah Lawrence College 3 comments

by: Shana Agid / Sarah Lawrence College
Thoughts on Transgeneration and TV’s quest to create a viable “normal” transgender person.

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Micro-Ethnographies of the Screen: The Supermarket

October 7, 2005 Dan Leopard / St. Mary's College of California 3 comments

by: Dan Leopard / University of Southern California
Dan Leopard considers the screens we ignore as we shop for food.

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Celebrity Nepotism, Family Values and E! Television

September 9, 2005 Diane Negra / University College Dublin 2 comments

by: Diane Negra / University of East Anglia
A closer look at families, wealth and Filthy Rich Cattle Drive.

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Pass the Remote!

April 1, 2005 Natalie Cannon, Zak Salih, and Angela Nemecek 8 comments

by: Natalie Cannon, Zak Salih, and Angela Nemecek
HBO’s Carnivale and the valorization of freak culture.

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The Republic of Tyra

April 1, 2005 Anna McCarthy / New York University 6 comments

by: Anna McCarthy / New York University
Who would you rather run the country — Tyra or Simon?

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I’m A Celebrity – Analyse Me: The Appeal of Celebrity Reality TV

March 4, 2005 Kirsty Fairclough / University of Salford, UK 6 comments

by: Kirsty Fairclough / University of Salford, UK
What celebrity reality TV offers as opposed to its celebrity-constructing counterpart is not the transformation of the “ordinary” person into the “extraordinary,” but the opposite trajectory.

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@rahul_mukh explores the infrastructures and services underpinning the shift to mobile streaming in India. Discover more here: https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/11/streaming-indias-neomobile-audiences/

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In the final column of Flow 30.2, Lauren Steimer discusses the unacknowledged dangers of on-set stunt work. Read more here: https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/11/accident-the-true-dangers-of-stunt-work/

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Maggie Rossman's look at audience reception of the film Barbie demonstrates that even simplistic feminist discourse can lead to complicated affective responses. Read the article here: https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/11/becoming-the-barbie-spectator/

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