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Author: Amanda Klein / East Carolina University

The Hills, Jersey Shore, and the Aesthetics of Class
Amanda Ann Klein / East Carolina University

April 22, 2011 Amanda Klein / East Carolina University 15 comments

This column argues that the aesthetics of The Hills and Jersey Shore condition the viewer’s reception, inviting them to see each program’s performance of class and ethnicity as being tied to specific notions of taste and cultural capital.

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Black Swan, Cinematic Excess and the Full Body Experience
Amanda Klein / East Carolina University

February 11, 2011 Amanda Klein / East Carolina University 11 comments

In this piece, Amanda Klein explores how Black Swan employs the conventions of art cinema in order to engage the mind, and uses the conventions of horror, melodrama, and pornography to engage the body.

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Welfare Queen Redux: Teen Mom, Class and the Bad Mother
Amanda Ann Klein / East Carolina University

November 12, 2010 Amanda Klein / East Carolina University 18 comments

MTV’s Teen Mom deploys a straw man of the “Bad Mother,” akin to the Reagan-era welfare queen, to depict unwed, lower-class teen women in a negative light.

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The D2D Release: Notes on a Burgeoning Market
Amanda Klein / East Carolina University

April 8, 2010 Amanda Klein / East Carolina University 10 comments

Direct-to-DVD (D2D) films are often ignored by academic discourse, yet the study of D2D films offers an important contribution to the fields of both reception and genre studies.

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Window Dressing: Spectacular Costuming in MTV’s The City

January 22, 2010 Amanda Klein / East Carolina University 5 comments

Amanda Ann Klein / East Carolina University

An examination of how costume trumps narrative in MTV’s The City.

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BET’s Baldwin Hills: Injecting Race and Class into the Projective Drama

November 12, 2009 Amanda Klein / East Carolina University 8 comments

Amanda Klein / East Carolina University

A look at BET’s Baldwin Hills, a reality drama that effectively straddles the line between projective drama and rhetorical document.

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Stefania Marghitu explores the intersections between gender, genre, and authorship via Rose Matafeo's Starstruck. @DearStefania

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