Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (805 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1580052657 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 392 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Instead of hurling down invectives against popular culture from an insulated ivory tower, Pozner is a smart, snarky fellow traveler who offers stinging criticism and stunning insights peppered with just enough colloquial profanity to keep readers laughing and shaking our heads. Find out why these shows sell even when we don’t watch, and what they sell, thanks to producers who say “it’s a lot of fun to watch girls crying.” Fun, fresh and furious, Reality Bites Back is feminist media criticism at its best."—Laura Flanders, host and founder, GRITtv, and a
She lays out the cultural biases promoted by reality TV about gender, race, class, sexuality, and consumerism, and explores how those biases shape and reflect our cultural perceptions of who we are, what we’re valued for, and what we should view as our place” in society. Smart and informative, Reality Bites Back arms readers with the tools they need to understand and challenge the stereotypes reality TV reinforces and, ultimately, to demand accountability from the corporations responsible for this contemporary cultural attack on three decades of feminist progress.. She deconstructs reality TV’s twisted fairytales to demonstrate that far from being simple guilty pleasures,” these programs are actually guilty of fomenting gender-war ideology and significantly affecting the intellectual and political development of this generation’s young viewers. In Reality Bites Back, media critic Jennifer L. Pozner aims a critical, analytical lens at a trend most people dismiss as harmless fluff. Nearly every night on every major network, unscripted” (but carefully crafted) reality” TV shows routinely glorify retrograde stereotypes that most people would assume got left behind 35 years ago
Reality TV - Even Worse for You Than You Think Andrew Bongiorno In an attempt to shut out the worries of the world with a little mindless entertainment, my wife and I have watched the last few cycles of America's Next Top Model. A few cycles back, there was a contestant named London, a pretty girl and a capable model who happened to gain a few pounds as the season progressed. At no time did we consider her fat, but we also had no reason to doubt the show's conclusion regarding this contestant, that she was unable for whatever reason to discipline her eating as well as her competitors. London was eliminated from the show mid-season.In Reality Bites Back, Jennifer L. Pozner fills. "Eye opener!!!" according to AMMER. Informative & you question what you watch on TV.. "Fat wallet+skinny chick=love" according to Macke. In "Reality bites back" author Jennifer L. Pozner launches a timely and funny critique of reality television. She does this from a mainly feminist perspective, going after shows like "The Bachelor" and "Who wants to marry a millionaire". In these shows she says progress that has been made in the feminist movement has regressed, portraying women as hysterical and desperate with only one goal in mind-which is to marry a rich husband who they in turn can serve. Notions of independence and free thinking are not encouraged and women are placed in stereotyped roles like "the antagonizer", "the slut" and "the weeper". All