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... culture, Li Yugang has won the recognition of both market and mainstream cultures, successfully adding a modern edge to the traditional art. Like reality television shows in the West, Li Yugang’s cross-dressing performances tend to use sensationalism to attract viewers and to increase advertising revenue...

... programming teaching the building blocks of the abcs —along with, of course, teaching kids the building blocks of segmented and ongoing tv form itself). The way, then, in which television teaches neoliberal thinking—training us, as if in a reality program, to manage risks and resources, to calculate...

..., demonstrating the continued need for camp spectatorship precisely in the attempt to banish it. © 2017 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2017 Caitlyn Jenner I Am Cait camp transgender drag disidentification reality television One night in 2015...

..., the American reality television series To Catch a Predator aired on msnbc, introducing an accessible depiction of sexual predation into living rooms across America. As the plotline goes, a volunteer would impersonate an underage child seeking the sexual attention of adult males over the Internet...

... environment of enormous profit as well as a media genre that draws on the popularity of reality tv and celebrity culture. This media environment is driven by personality (think Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Rachel Maddow, and Chris Hayes) and is not only reactive and ideologically selective...

... television show and its narrative of black women’s power to craft their own destinies on the dating market offer? The Bachelorette , like its parent show The Bachelor —where a single man chooses from a bevy of beautiful women—has always presented its viewers a fairy tale, where two people find true love...

....” Levinas and Lacan: The Missed Encounter . Ed. Sarah Harasym. Albany, ny: suny p, 1998 . 102 -20. Vaughan, Dai. Television Documentary Usage . London: British Film Institute, 1976 . Winston, Brian. Claiming the Real . London: British Film Institute, 1995 . Wollen, Peter. “Godard and Counter...

... the conventions of contemporary television news coverage allowed into the television frame what does not fit a coherent idea of reality management. The seemingly rational, objective split screen—or multiple screen—technique of news...

... Fictions: Cinema, Television, Video . Boston : Routledge , 1982 . Epstein Barbara Leslie . The Politics of Domesticity: Women, Evangelism, and Temperance in Nineteenth-Century America . Middletown : Wesleyan UP , 1981 . Foucault Michel . Discipline and Punish: The Birth...

.... To certain Western intellectuals today, "postmodernity" might seem to be a global reality. But I would tend to agree with Bauman who, in a recent review of Baudrillard's widely publicized book, America, wittily observed that there is still life beyond television, and many people for whom it is anything...

... . Trans. Grigg Russell . Ed. Miller Jacques-Alain . New York : Norton , 1993 . Lacan Jacques . The Sinthome: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XXIII . Trans. Price A. R. . Ed. Miller Jacques-Alain . Malden : Polity , 2016 . Lacan Jacques . Television . Ed...

... and is now available in small, medium, and super- sized rectangles (television, cinemascope, imax, for example); cinema’s symbiotic relation to television, video, and other digital practices has been ongoing for nearly half a century...

... , a parody of the popular police television drama Dragnet (eponymously reproduced from a radio series), ignited a wave of porn parodies mimicking television and film across genres, such as Throbbin’ Hood (1987), Nightmare on Porn Street (1988), and My Bare Lady (1989). By the mid-1990s, though...

... “Walter Cronkite” Spillers, tv newscaster. Even without television, you are still a model to multitudes. Other than Cronkite (who also rocked my youthful newshound’s world), who are your models? I have read that it was William Blake who first turned your head from radio and tv broadcasting to literary...

...). Feuer stresses that “liveness” is not an ontological reality but rather an imaginary relationship to the conditions by which reality is produced and perceived. Indeed, as Feuer notes, “as television in fact becomes less and less...

... Lab. 15 Aug. 2005. http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2002/entries/church-turing . Doane, Mary Ann. The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, The Archive . Cambridge, ma: Harvard up, 2002 . Feuer, Jane. “The Concept of Live Television: Ontology as Ideology.” Regarding...

... : Columbia UP , 1988 . Gelder Ken . Reading the Vampire . New York : Routledge , 1994 . Ginsberg Merle . “ Interview With the Vampire Author .” TV Guide 22 Oct . 1994 : 24 – 27 . Halley Janet . “ The Construction of Heterosexuality .” Fear of a Queer Planet . Ed...

... image to introduce—in a 1984 television advertisement during the Super Bowl ha lftime—thei r new Macintosh computer. Thousands of homoge- neous, mindless drones sit before a huge screen filled with the image of Big Brother spouting...

... promote the self. From this perspective, it is worth asking whether this decade’s trend toward autistic protagonists in various novels, films, and television shows does not constitute a metaphor for a functional subjectivity characterized by isolation, affective disconnection, and the capacity...

... American television show Hoarders or Song Dong’s critically renowned moma exhibit Waste Not. Hoarders tries to distinguish between a col- lector and a hoarder on the basis of a disorder of the will. Hoarders are unable to part...