Alan Pike

PhD StudentEmory University

agpike@emory.edu

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In Media Res

Unlock the Gates: Genre and Rhetoric in MSNBC's "Lockup"

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Alan Pike Emory University

April 03, 2013
Unlock the Gates: Genre and Rhetoric in MSNBC's "Lockup" television genres reality TV Prison Documentary vs. Reality TV Curator's Note MSNBC’s Lockup is the longest running and most highly-rated prison series on television. The first s ...

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In Media Res

Re: Blurred Boundaries: Approaches to Defining Documentaries and Reality Television

Generic Instability

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Alan Pike Emory University

Thursday, April 4, 2013 — 3:49 pm
I think that all of the posts this week highlight the instability of these generic signifiers. I think that Evan's inclination to move beyond the texts themselves is appropriate if we hope to "define" programs as one or the other. Discursiv ...