Two Men Enter One Man Leaves: Men, Survival, and Gladiatorial Television survivalist TV hyper masculinity gladiator Curator's Note In its pursuit of the authentic, reality television has taken a dramatic turn towards the visceral – with programmes li ...
Building on that, the body horror elements often form the sensationalist water cooler moments for these programmes- Bear Grylls has surely based a good deal of his reality television career on his ability to combine a charming smile with body shock. Who c ...
Thanks for the fascinating connections drawn here. Just to jump in on Teter's point regarding race- in the research I've done, I've been struck by the ways in which survival skills (and martial skills in particular) are mapped onto notions ...
Thanks for posting a piece that points out the pleasures of these kinds of texts. Too often critical, and perhaps scholarly, considerations forget this complex aspect of reality television's reception. I'm particularly fascinated at the ways tha ...
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