TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rachel E. Silverman
PY  - 2015
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781453915639
TI  - The Fantasy of Reality
T2  - Critical Essays on «The Real Housewives»
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-1563-9
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051716
N2  - With over twenty different casts, multiple spin-off series, and five international locations, The Real Housewives franchise is a television phenomenon. The women on these shows have reinvented the soap opera diva and in doing so, have offered television viewers a new opportunity to embrace a loved, yet waning, genre. As the popularity and prevalence of the docu-drama genre of reality TV continues to increase, the time is ripe for a collection of this sort. The Fantasy of Reality: Critical Essays on ‘The Real Housewives’ explores the series and the women of The Real Housewives through the lens of race, class, gender, sexuality, and place. The contributing authors use an expansive and impressive array of methodological approaches to examine particular aspects of the series, offering rich analysis and insight along the way. This collection takes seriously what some may mock and others adore. Chapters are both fun and informative, lending themselves well to Housewives fans and media scholars alike.
KW  - queer, identity, gender, feminism
LA  - English
ER  -