Archive for the ‘ reality show ’ Category
It is no accident that so many reality shows begin with 12 contestants. One genealogy of the reality show might indeed trace it back to the jury system, and the odd practice, so characteristic of the anxieties of liberal democracy, of sequestering. The reality show, indeed, brings to its breaking point a paradox endemic to modern [ READ MORE ]
A theory of the contemporary theater might begin with the juxtaposition of Bertolt Brecht and the reality show. They share more in common than one would think. Indeed the reality show, which rejoices in the struggle for survival and forces the viewer to identify with the principle of selection in all its savagery, is nothing but the Brechtian drama trans- and disfigured [ READ MORE ]
