Reality TV and Queer Identities Sexuality, Authenticity, Celebrity /

• Main Author: Lovelock, Michael (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Motion pictures and television.; Queer theory.; Celebrities.; Screen Studies.; Queer Theory.; Celebrity Studies.

This book examines queer visibility in reality television, which is arguably the most prolific space of gay, lesbian, transgender and otherwise queer media representation. It explores almost two decades of reality programming, from Big Brother to I Am Cait, American Idol to RuPaul's Drag Race,...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. 'Real' queers on television: from heteronormativity to compulsory authenticity
• 3. Queerness as authenticity in reality TV
• 4. Born This Way: Authenticity as Essentialism in Reality TV
• 5. Resurgent Heteronormativity in Reality Pop
• 6. Working and werking: Queerness, labour and neoliberal self-branding in reality TV
• 7. Conclusion.