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Author: Rachel E. Dubrofsky
Publisher: Lexington Books
Imprint: Lexington Books
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 24.20cm
Weight: 0.422kg
ISBN: 9780739164983
ISBN 10: 0739164988
Pages: 164
Publication Date: 17 June 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The Bachelor seems like a simple game show; season after season, women and men are just looking for love. Rachel Dubrofsky accepts the offer to attend ABC 's bachelor party and, with great analytic dexterity, critiques reality television 's guilty pleasures, asking how its stories actively construct raced and gendered bodies. Without suggesting we give our pleasure up, she insists we engage the work The Bachelor Industry does and the way it produces citizens. Dubrofsky ably demonstrates that the quest for love is a story that cannot be told outside of existing logics of whiteness, femininity, and romance.--Byers, Michele
With brilliant intellectual acuity, feminist scholar Rachel Dubrofsky delivers an insightful and nuanced contribution to the growing literature on reality television. -- Ronald L. Jackson II, editor of Critical Studies in Media Communication and author of Scripting the Black Masculine Body in Popular Media Dubrofsky's book powerfully illuminates the raced and gendered emotional economy that is the stock and trade of The Bachelor, and the reality TV industry more broadly speaking. No other book reveals the ideological, economic and affective work that race and gender performance do in reality television. Drawing methods from genre and TV studies to critical race studies and political economy, Dubrofsky sheds crucial light on the reality TV enterprise and its gendered and racialized fundamentals. Focusing on the The Bachelor Industry's construction of romantic failure, its injunction to women to be authentically real and its mobilization of the therapeutics of surveillance, Dubrofsky reveals the ways of seeing gender, race and sexuality that structure current reality TV production: from the deployment of surveillance in the female TV confessional to the emotional money shot to the re-centering of white heterosexual femininity via the marginalization of women of colour. The Surveillance of Women on Reality Television is a compelling read. It makes an important contribution to feminist media studies and is a highly teachable book. -- Carrie A. Rentschler, McGill University The Bachelor seems like a simple game show; season after season, women and men are just looking for love. Rachel Dubrofsky accepts the offer to attend ABC's bachelor party and, with great analytic dexterity, critiques reality television's guilty pleasures, asking how its stories actively construct raced and gendered bodies. Without suggesting we give our pleasure up, she insists we engage the work The Bachelor Industry does and the way it produces citizens. Dubrofsky ably demonstrates that the quest for love is a story that cannot be told outside of existing logics of whiteness, femininity, and romance. -- Michele Byers, Saint Mary's University
Author Information
Rachel E. Dubrofsky is assistant professor in the Department of Communication at University of South Florida.
