Fame Factory: Performing Gender and Sexuality in Talent Reality Television

This article discusses how gender and sexuality are performed in a highly feminised cultural symbolic context. The object of study is a reality show where the contestants compete in mainstream popular music. Fame Factory is a Swedish talent-hunt television series with many similarities to Pop Idol....

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Main Author: Hillevi Ganetz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linköping University Electronic Press 2011-10-01
Series:Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.113401