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Author: Gareth Palmer / University of Salford

“A-loan A-gain:”
In the Shadows of Lifestyle Television

October 27, 2007 Gareth Palmer / University of Salford 3 comments

An look at daytime loan commercials reveals that the home we are encouraged to love and cherish more than ever has shaky foundations.

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Talent: No Alarms and No Surprises, Please.

August 30, 2007 Gareth Palmer / University of Salford 5 comments

by: Gareth Palmer / University of Salford

What is talent now? A starry rope-ladder to the celebrity scaffold? Or a gift? You decide…

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Kyle-Time: You Can’t Touch This

June 29, 2007 Gareth Palmer / University of Salford 2 comments

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.

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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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On Our Best Behaviour

December 15, 2006 Gareth Palmer / University of Salford 2 comments

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.

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Awaken the Giant Within — He’s Hungry!:
Anthony Robbins and the Enterprising Self

October 6, 2006 Gareth Palmer / University of Salford 2 comments

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.

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31 May

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That’s a wrap on Volume 28. Shout out to our wonderful contributors and staff this past year. Also, be on the lookout out for our grad student issue that goes live in August!

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30 May

Nicole Erin Morse examines how The Matrix (1999) interrupts and deconstructs the male gaze. @cinefeminism

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