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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 129–153.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Kristen J. Warner This article explores the interstitial spaces between positive and negative representations of black womanhood on reality television. It argues that regardless of the presence of supposedly positive images in media, if audiences choose to see black women as “loud,” the symbolic...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 59–83.
Published: 01 September 2014
... has published in the area of affect and visceral displays of the body in both television drama and reality television. Her current research focuses on affect in postapartheid South African television. © 2014 by Camera Obscura 2014 Figure 1. Maria shyly tilts her head away from the camera...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 1–9.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Lynne Joyrich; Misha Kavka; Brenda R. Weber This introduction to the special issue “Project Reality TV” interrogates, while also playing with, some of TV's forms and conventions, particularly those of the “preshow special” and the interview format. Borrowing from this format, it explores key issues...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 185–195.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Jane Feuer This essay attempts to break down a binary opposition between “quality TV” and reality TV, which is usually set up along an axis of distinction based on aesthetic value. That is: HBO dramas are art; reality TV shows are trash. As Misha Kavka writes, “Because reality television is seen...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 71–99.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Hunter Hargraves This article charts the emergence of a subgenre of reality television, recovery television, in which individuals with compulsive behaviors or addictions to unhealthy substances are profiled and reformed through a staged intervention. It argues that recovery television...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 41–69.
Published: 01 May 2015
... more surprising—and more recent—promise of the medium: that TV can in fact keep the viewer alive by helping her lose weight. While the proliferation of reality TV formats and lifestyle programming has marked the increased visibility of corpulent bodies on television, how is it that a medium once...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 65–89.
Published: 01 September 2011
... demonstrates how reality TV contributes to social governance through disciplinary discourse. Although it achieved international success as a global franchise and treated a supposedly universal subject matter, child rearing, it is at first surprising that the program was not localized for the Australian market...
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Why Isn't Michelle Lopez on Judge Judy ? Citizenship and Televisuality in Hima B.'s And I Do Survive
Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 183–195.
Published: 01 September 2010
... by the state. Drawing on contemporary television studies that link the genre of courtroom television to neoliberal governance, the article finally suggests that if (reality) television takes legal citizenship of its citizen-subjects for granted, And I Do Survive articulates precisely the gap between...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 101–127.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Misha Kavka Perhaps no reality TV program has been as roundly criticized for bad behavior as Jersey Shore (MTV, 2009–12). The libidinal license exhibited by the cast, as well as the early controversy regarding the show's use of the terms guido and guidette to describe the Italian American cast...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 113–137.
Published: 01 May 2018
... spaces and aesthetics for producing collective memory that differently configure spectatorial interaction and social intervention. Counterposing the hyperindustrialized military vision of the fictional reality TV show Drones with the social media–styled memory market TruNode, the film’s caricature...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 11–39.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., and figures of the female grotesque not with reality television per se but with an episode of the NBC sitcom 30 Rock (2006 13). In Standards and Practices, limelight-loving star Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski) makes a bid for public support following her stint as the mean judge on a faux reality...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 155–183.
Published: 01 May 2015
... before a cut to another confessional a reality TV convention where cast members speak privately to the camera in which cast mate NeNe Leakes explains, Sheree is jealous of me; I know that for a fact. Cut to a restaurant. The camera pans out for an Camera Obscura 88, Volume 30, Number 1 doi...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 188–190.
Published: 01 December 2015
... Continuity, Reality
Celebrity, and the Female Grotesque. No. 88: pp. 11 – 39
Lynne Joyrich, Misha Kavka, and Brenda R. Weber
Project Reality TV: Preshow Special. No. 88: pp. 1 – 9
Kyoung-Lae Kang
Kyung-Sung: Cinematic Memories of the Colonial Past in
Contemporary Korea. No. 90: pp. 27...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 184–185.
Published: 01 December 2014
...: The Worlds of Susanne Bier. No. 85: pp. 5 – 31
Belinda Smaill, see Therese Davis and Belinda Smaill
Alexia Smit
Care, Shame, and Intimacy: Reconsidering the Pleasures of Plastic
Surgery Reality Television. No. 86: pp. 59 – 83
Julia Vassilieva
“Becoming-Girl” in the New Russian Cinema: Youth...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 47–51.
Published: 01 May 2006
... to be “a trophy wife.” Each
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woman says she feels confident and empowered by her procedures.
There are no negatives in sight, though we do occasionally witness
patients vomiting from general anesthesia.
Like the majority of reality TV programs, these shows
mostly star...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 4–7.
Published: 01 May 1990
..., game shows,
reality television, and prime-time soaps as his examples, Fiske explores
how television invites its audiences into the space of representation so
that viewers can comment back on and even re-envision that space.
Elaborating on the differences between “dominant...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 137–143.
Published: 01 December 2006
...,
“ ‘Take Responsibility for Yourself’: Judge Judy and the Neoliberal
Citizen,” in Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture, ed. Susan
Murray and Ouellette (New York: New York University Press,
2004), 231 – 50.
Lynne Joyrich is associate professor of modern culture and media...
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (1 (31)): 96–119.
Published: 01 May 1993
..., demographically
targeted shows which have become popularly described as “reality
television.” Fox shows such as America’s Most Wanted (AMW), Cops,
Code 3, and On Scene: Emergency Response were successful enough
to be widely imitated by the other three networks (e.g., FBI...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 161–195.
Published: 01 May 2010
... industry. The “porn
star” is now a bona fide celebrity, showing up in entertainment mag-
azines, music videos, ad campaigns, and reality television shows.17
While the mainstreaming of adult industry culture has translated
into more profits, there is a downside to this upward mobility...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 191–217.
Published: 01 May 2024
... in the service of an unexamined “womanhood.” In reality, I May Destroy You uses both plot—as Arabella and her friends attempt to make sense of her rape—and narrative form to deconstruct the identity of “woman,” the term that most television series on “women's issues” and with feminist modes of address have...
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