Author : Shannon O'Sullivan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781666900026
Reality TV’s Real Men of the Recession by Shannon O'Sullivan Pdf
In the 2000s, reality programs showcasing white, working-class men performing hazardous occupations in wilderness settings proliferated on U.S. cable networks. Shannon O’Sullivan argues that this genre represents a reactionary veneration of white, rural, working-class men as “real Americans” amid the Great Recession and current events.