Overview
- Offers the first book-length study of reality television’s central role in how queer identities take shape within popular culture
- Interrogates how reality TV has set out hierarchies of ‘acceptable’ and ‘unacceptable’ ways to be queer in the contemporary moment
- Draws upon a wide range of case studies from both US and UK reality TV, linking recent cases with older examples from across the first and second decades of the 21st century
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“Michael Lovelock’s Reality TV and Queer Identities: Sexuality, Authenticity, Celebrity offers an excellent insight into the changing landscape of televisual form revealing how queer social actors are staking their claim within reality TV. Offering both an historical account and a sophisticated theoretical foundation, Lovelock’s insight is both informative and provocative. Engaging with case studies as diverse as The Real World, Bake Off, and Fire Island, this book is accessible, stimulating and a delight, for scholars and everyday readers.” (Christopher Pullen, Bournemouth University, UK )
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Book Title: Reality TV and Queer Identities
Book Subtitle: Sexuality, Authenticity, Celebrity
Authors: Michael Lovelock
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14215-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14214-8Published: 08 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14215-5Published: 24 April 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 205
Topics: Screen Studies, Queer Theory, Celebrity Studies