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Queerness as Authenticity in Reality TV, argues that reality TV has challenged traditional understandings of TV audiences as always heterosexual. Instead, reality TV has crafted a worldview in which the determination to be true to one’s apparently ‘authentic’ self unites members of contemporary societies. Lovelock argues that because real

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Working and Werking: Queerness, Labour and Neoliberal Self-Branding in Reality TV,ocusing on case studies including . and ., this chapter argues that reality shows have animated queer histories based in resilience to heteronormative and racist marginalisation, such as the concept of ‘werking,’ and reconfigured these as routes of the creation of successful reality TV self-brands.

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es how reality TV has set out hierarchies of ‘acceptable’ anThis book examines queer visibility in reality television, which is arguably the most prolific space of gay, lesbian, transgender and otherwise queer media representation. It explores almost two decades of reality programming, from. Big Bro

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Introduction,heoretical approach to queer identities and media representation, influenced by queer and post-structuralist conceptions of these identities as performative, discursive and culturally constructed. Finally, this chapter sets out and explains the national focus and time-frame of the study, and finishes with a summary of each chapter.

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,‘Real’ Queers on Television: From Heteronormativity to Compulsory Authenticity,epresentations were shaped by assumptions of TV audiences as located within heterosexual nuclear families. In contrast, he makes the compelling claim that reality TV reimagined its audience as mass of different people, bound by the shared ideal of . rather than heteronormativity, whatever one’s sexuality or gender identity.

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Queerness as Authenticity in Reality TV,ity shows maintain that ‘real’ selves can be concealed or suppressed, and assert the importance of being authentic, they question heteronormative assumptions that everyone is straight. The chapter concludes by suggesting that reality TV can be interpreted as queer utopia which imagines of a more equal world for sex and gender minorities.

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