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Champion, Robert Theodore McWhorter.

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Can you say it more southern?: Renewing Hollywood's media colony in southern reality television.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Can you say it more southern?: Renewing Hollywood's media colony in southern reality television./
Author:	Champion, Robert Theodore McWhorter.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	270 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-02A(E).
Subject:	Film studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10162562
ISBN:	9781369173512

Can you say it more southern?: Renewing Hollywood's media colony in southern reality television.
Champion, Robert Theodore McWhorter.

Can you say it more southern?: Renewing Hollywood's media colony in southern reality television. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 270 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Alabama, 2016.

Recent reality television programming has reawakened the popular use of the American South and, specifically, working-class white southerners, for mass entertainment purposes. Nonfiction media have historically represented the South as a distinct and often inferior region of the United States, and an occasional critic has attempted to raise concerns about the disenfranchisement of a subculture of people, but scholars have yet to conduct major research on southern-themed reality shows.

ISBN: 9781369173512Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122736
Film studies.

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520 $a Using multidisciplinary approaches, this dissertation examines how nonfiction media have exploited and are currently exploiting the image of the working-class white southerner. As both southern media historian and an active practitioner in the television industry, I have a unique perspective that allows me to address this current trend and its potential problems. I begin the research by surveying prior nonfiction media dating back to the 18th century. This understanding of past publishing, journalism, films, and broadcasting helps identify specific conventions that media producers have historically applied to the mediated South. Countless stereotypes include excessive drinking, obesity, indecency, and anti-intellectualism. I then closely examine three recent reality television series, analyzing how these past conventions are transformed for modern audiences. Finally, by directly observing and participating in the production of a new, southern-themed reality program, I offer insight on how production culture can foster the perpetuation of stereotypes and serve the needs of both producers and on-screen subjects.
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