讲座：Reality Television and Reflexive Audiences: Responding to Makeover Television

           (真人电视与受众反抗：对装扮类节目的回应)

演讲者：Prof. Katherine Sender

演讲时间：2013年11月6日星期三上午10点

演讲地点：延长校区三教二楼基地会议室

演讲内容概要：This talk draws from my recently published book  The Makeover: Reality Television and Reflexive Audiences (New York University Press, 2012). I introduce four significant personal makeover shows and discuss audiences' responses to them. Do we enjoy watching the humiliation of others? Do we self-monitor and adjust as a result of watching makeovers on screen? Do we believe the "reality" of reality television? Audiences are highly reflexive about reality shows in three ways: they use the shows to be self-reflexive, they are reflexive about the media they consume, and they are reflexive about the research context. The audiences I spoke to, in other words, used makeover shows to consider their own selves and contexts, but they were also savvy about the production and consumption of makeover television, and explicitly constructed their responses to the shows within the research environment. Beyond the specifics of the makeover genre, I consider how reflexivity contributes to existing debates within audience reception studies.