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28 Class sessions

Intro to Visual Culture. Live!. 22 Guest Lecturers. Many, MANY PowerPoint slides . 28 Class sessions. Starring Mark Olson, with your Host Professor Kristine Stiles. Keepin’ It Real. Reality Television & Visual Culture. Reality TV. Real people (real = ordinary) Unscripted

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28 Class sessions

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  1. Intro to Visual Culture Live! 22 Guest Lecturers Many, MANY PowerPoint slides 28 Class sessions Starring Mark Olson, with your Host Professor Kristine Stiles

  2. Keepin’ It Real Reality Television & Visual Culture

  3. Reality TV • Real people (real = ordinary) • Unscripted • Ordinary / Extraordinary Situations • Commercial • Entertainment

  4. Flow Space of the home Segmented Flow Liveness potential Segmented Audiences Divergent Platforms Timeshifting Specificity of the Televisual

  5. Television & Real Life • “Television’s real value is to make people participants in ongoing experiences. Real life is vastly more exciting than synthetic life, and this is real life drama with audience participation.” 1969 - Television news anchor describing the televising of the Apollo moon landing

  6. Real life is exciting?

  7. Reality TV’s spectacular claim to reality

  8. Spectacular mode of address • Mode of address - establishing a relationship between the text and an audience (preferred reading) • Play of immediacy & hypermediacy

  9. Immediacy • Erasure of the gap between signifier & signified / between representation and reality • Forget the presence of the medium • Grasping the real

  10. Hypermediacy • Remind the viewer of the medium -- making us conscious that the reality we see is mediated • Multiplying the levels and sites of mediation

  11. Big Brother

  12. Surveillance • Reality TV promotes the idea that surveillance is a natural mode through which to observe the social world • Unaware of cameras, or forget that they are there, yielding “truth” and “reality”

  13. The Confession • Visual reality & the problem of interiority • Acting vs. Being (being real)

  14. Hyperreality • The authentic fake (Umberto Eco) • A blending of reality and representation (or performance & identity) where there is no clear indication where the former stops and the latter begins.

  15. Hyperreality

  16. Surveillance America

  17. YouTube & lonelygirl15

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