A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
An look at daytime loan commercials reveals that the home we are encouraged to love and cherish more than ever has shaky foundations.
Read moreTalent: No Alarms and No Surprises, Please.
by: Gareth Palmer / University of Salford
What is talent now? A starry rope-ladder to the celebrity scaffold? Or a gift? You decide…
Kyle-Time: You Can’t Touch This
by: Gareth Palmer / University of Salford
Britain’s Jeremy Kyle demonstrates why television’s need to maximize emotional performances and responses means that producers invest in those most likely to offer confessional behaviour for public consumption.
Prime Time Bullies
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.’
On Our Best Behaviour
by: Gareth Palmer / University of Salford
Television’s engagement with surveillance of all kinds is fashioning a productive shame, reproducing models of ever more restricted “outer-focused” identities.
Awaken the Giant Within — He’s Hungry!:
Anthony Robbins and the Enterprising Self
by: Gareth Palmer / University of Salford
An investigation of Robbins’ human potential movement and how it is perfectly aligned with the project of governmental self-formation to shape our conduct in ways that match those of dominant authorities and agencies.