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- Title
Guilty Pleasures and Cultural Legitimation: Exploring High-Status Reality TV in the Postnetwork Era.
- Authors
WAYNE, MICHAEL L.
- Abstract
The article discusses the social and cultural aspects of American reality television programs in a post-television network era in the twenty-first century, and it mentions cultural legitimation, the guilty pleasures of various television viewers, and the moral aspects of cable television programs such as "Intervention" and "Beyond Scared Straight." Television situation comedies such as "Modern Family" are examined, along with the attitudes of television critics towards reality television.
- Subjects
UNITED States; REALITY television programs -- Social aspects; TELEVISION &; culture; TELEVISION broadcasting; PLEASURE; TELEVISION networks; INTERVENTION (TV program); BEYOND Scared Straight (TV program); TELEVISION critics; ETHICS; TWENTY-first century; ATTITUDE (Psychology); HISTORY of television broadcasting
- Publication
Journal of Popular Culture, 2015, Vol 48, Issue 5, p990
- ISSN
1540-5931
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jpcu.12337