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Keeping Up with the Psychoanalysts: Applying Lacanian and Feminist Theory to Reality Television
Leary, Catherine E.
Leary, Catherine E.
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Keeping Up with the Kardashians is a staple of modern pop culture and provides rich grounds for exploration due to its prominence, controversial nature, and scope of content. I use critical analysis with a basis in Lacanian psychoanalysis, postfeminist theory, and queer theory to explore reality, sexuality, and gender in Keeping Up with the Kardashians. I question how these concepts are utilized within the popular reality television show, how their representations on-screen can contribute to the discourse surrounding and understanding of these concepts, and what the future of women on television could be. I focus particularly on finding the subversive potential of the show’s content through each of these lenses, despite the way one might assume reality television upholds societal norms and ideals.
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2018-01-01
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