Danielle J. Lindemann, "True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us" (FSG, 2022)
New Books in Critical Theory
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Keeping Up With the Cardasian Shows
Keeping up with the cardasian shows us that, like, as wacky and devient as we think the cardasians are, a again, they're just kind of showing us how we an keep returning to these conservative ideas about what makes a good mother. And so she's nt able to kind of hit that sweet spot of intensive mothering. Ah. So you talk a lot about both the sort of junior versions of er reality shows. But there's also, you know, things like, is it tolesantiaros? You knowit was usta beauty pageant show. Oh my goodness! I mean, there's so much happening there around childhood,. right?
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