"You're going to Hollywood"!: Gender and race surveillance and accountability in American Idol contestant's performances
This paper examines how the reality competition television program American Idol serves to reinforce gendered, racialized and heteronormative stereotypes, particularly for female contestants. Through its "democratic" style of public audience voting, those competitors who not only sing well...
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Scholar Commons
2009
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| Online Access: | http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2057 http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3056&context=etd |