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Podcast: New Books in Popular Culture
Episode: Reality TV
Description: In this episode of High Theory, Olivia Stowell speaks with Saronik about Reality TV.In the episode she talks about the genesis of the genre in Candid Camera, An American Family, COPS and Americaâs Most Wanted, before the watershed moment of The Real World in the 1990s. She references the work of June Deery, and Pier Dominguez on the commercial realism and affective economies of reality tv, and Susan Douglassâs article âJersey Shore: Ironic Viewing.â She reminds us that Reality TV dramatizes the life of the neoliberal subject under surveillance, and explicates our âtrashyâ desires.Olivia Stowell is...