Kraszewski's Chapter 'Country Hicks And Urban Cliques'

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Response Essay Three Race and The Real World Kraszewski writes in his chapter, “Country Hicks and Urban Cliques,” that throughout its 20 season run, (now 30+ seasons) The Real World has brought to terms “race and reality through discursive tensions between urban and rural America, as well as liberal and conservative politics.” In class lecture on November fifth we discussed these issues more in depth, and viewed clips of some of the tensions that Kraszewski describes in the chapter. In one example, we see Mike, Coral, and Malik enjoying their breakfast when Mike speaks up and confesses that his uncle will not hire black people because of their education. Throughout the rest of the season Coral and Malik prove to Mike that his uncle’s views …show more content…

Nevertheless, regardless of ratings, the finale and Survivor as a whole, ultimately altered the future of television. “In a matter of 13 weeks, CBS significantly launched the reality craze and had other producers and networks scrambling to find shows starring real people.” Network executives across Hollywood were swamped with pitches, writers, and regular people looking to make their big break on reality television. “A little show called Survivor came along and turned primetime television on its ear. Not only was the show a success, it became a cultural phenomenon. The audience has spoken and they have demonstrated that they have a huge appetite for this type of non-scripted …show more content…

. . A reaction to the assumed certainty of scientific, or objective, efforts to explain reality. In essence, it stems from a recognition that reality is not simply mirrored in human understanding of it, but rather, is constructed as the mind tries to understand its own particular and personal reality.” Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love as Dr. Wilson mentioned in lecture is a postmodern homage to, Tod Browning’s, Freaks, which we watched earlier in the semester. Some points made were how it reanimates many of the films most stimulating questions about agency, sexuality, and collective

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