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Resisting Project
Brainwash“Many of us know that most television is fiction, yet we
see television as a key source of information about the
world we live in. It is simultaneously real and unreal” –
Pozner
Gender
Race
Social Class
Image from: www.realitybitesbackbook.com
www.wildsound.com
The Bachelor: 25 women begging for one
man
Daisy De La Hoya: One of the many women from
VH1’s Rock of Love
http://gossip.celebritycowboy.com/
“…Fairytale females who stand up for themselves or who are confident, active, or powerful, are typically depicted as bitchy, catty, cruel, and unworthy – and they are almost always punished for their sins.”
Reality Dating
Shows: Happily
Ever After?
www.fanpop.com/
What is “hot”?
www.layoutsparks.com
www.thequestforit.com
http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/resources/2007/10/heather083007.jpg
http://www.televisioninternet.com/news/pictures/brettt2.jpghttp://cm1.theinsider.com
“Thinking is a waste of time.
Thinking is for people who
have no brains.”-a bride from WE’s show Bridezilla
CAD
DYhttp://www.loftcinema.com/files/mean-girls.jpg
INCAPABLE
OF WORK
http://www.newfoundnames.com/
LAZY
Reality TVHyper-
commercialism
HYPERCONSU
MERS
What has Flava Flav done to African American women?
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http://lovebscott.com/
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/3134/bootz2cd0.jpg
http://usversusthem.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/flavor1.jpg
The Women of
Flavor of Love
ew.com
Pozner on Bank’s as a former model:
“…Tyra grew up to become the ultimate
perpetrator of the ideology of the fashion
and beauty advertisers who stunted her
intellectual development and shaped her
self-image, psychology, and values.” -
Pozner
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
annftilley.blogspot.com
dailymakeover.com
Violence Against Women
in Reality TV:
“Sadism has been a recurring theme.
Right from the get-go, America’s Next
Top Model’s producers began
manufacturing moments that would
inevitably result in
pain or injury to the girls.” -Pozner
http://www.topnews.in/files/women-career.jpghttp://classracegender.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/domestic-women.jpg
“I will make the best wife for
Bob because I will be a servant
to him.”-Christine, a contestant on ABC’s The Bachelor before she even met the
Bachelor
Advertiser Ideology
goes
3-D/www.marshu.com/
sexsense.blogspot.com
Fun with Media Literacy!
•Critical Thinking about Reality TV shows•“What values are expressed?”
•“Whose message is this? Who created or paid for it? Why?”
•Playing Games Analyzing Reality TV•“Backlash Bingo”
•Reality TV Bingo
•Drinking Games to Reality TV shows•Example: For VH1’s Flava of Love, take a drink every
time you hear a woman called a bitch, ho or baby
mama
The Final
Chapter:
“What are you
going to do?”
How you can help make a difference!
Talking or blogging
online about issues
relevant to Reality TV
mystichackers.com
Supporting independent media
by watching/reading/listening
www.textually.org/
neverbetter.com
Creating your own media
and sharing it on public
sites like YouTube
Who is Jennifer L.
Pozner?
•Media Critic
•Journalist
•Activist
•Founder/Executi
ve Director of
WIMN
www.realitybitesbackbook.com/
Reality
TV
Realit
y
What Have I Learned From Reality
Bites Back?
“You want to watch Project Runway or What Not To
Wear? You’ll get no argument here; just watch with
your critical filters intact. Television can be a fun,
cathartic, and yes, a source of much pleasure (guilty
or otherwise).” - Pozner
General Misconceptions About Women
Reinforced by Reality Television
http://webforhealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/skinny-girl.jpg
Skinny
= Sexy
(even if
it’s
unhealt
hy)
Girls are
Dumbwww.flickr.com
http://images.fabulously40.com/uploadedimage/11995/thumbx640/donna-reed.jpg
Women =
Stay at
Home
Moms
Women are
Slutshttp://www.yourgossipfix.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/danger.jpg
http://www.princeton.edu/admission/whatsdistinctive/facultyprofiles/lacewell/picture-right.jpg
“Reality Bites Back
is an extraordinary gift
to critical media
literature… Pozner
reminds us that
TV is never accidental,
but directed to reinforce particular
social lessons. This should be
required reading for every
American girl and woman.”-Melissa Harris-Lacewell
What Comes After Reality Bites Back?
Jennifer Pozner’s New Project:
an independent TV show starring Pozner herself called
Reality Rehab
Reality Rehab is a
show that is
available on
YouTube and each
episode is a skit
poking fun at some
popular reality TV
show. In this
photo, Pozner is
posing as “Dr.
Jenn” (mocking Dr.
Drew on Celebrity
Rehab).
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Are there any critical
and credible reviews of
Jennifer Pozner’s
Reality Bites Back?
No.At least not yet…
Recommendation…?
If you have the chance, READ IT!
Why you ask?
•Funny•Enlightening
•Smart•Informative
•A must-read!
With the help of books critical of
the media such as this one,
maybe we as a society can
know when reality TV has taken
things too far, and when it’s our
cue to “bite back”!
Pozner, Jennifer. Reality Bites Back. Berkeley,
CA: Seal Press, 2010. 22, 48, 98, 109, 211,
229, 239, 326, 346. Print.
Pozner, Jennifer. Reality Bites Back. Berkeley,
CA: Seal Press, 2010. (Melissa Harris-
Lacewell Review -- Back of Book with other
reviews). Print.
Pozner, Jennifer. "WIMN's Voices." Women In
Media News. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Dec 2010.
<http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog
/?author=36&profile#bio>.
"Reality Rehab." Reality Bites Back. N.p., n.d.
Web. 10 Dec 2010.
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