{"title":"This Is a True Story about a True Story","authors":"Laurie J Ouellette","doi":"10.1525/fq.2022.76.2.88","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"FQ columnist Laurie Ouellette discusses The Real World Homecoming, a reboot of the seminal MTV reality show that incorporates reflexivity’s slipperier ways and shows how intertwined the content industries and ordinary people have become. Homecoming gathers the original Real World cast members, now middle-aged, not to produce a sociological account of lived biography or to examine mediated personhood, but to produce value from a dormant brand.","PeriodicalId":45540,"journal":{"name":"FILM QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"FILM QUARTERLY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2022.76.2.88","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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FQ columnist Laurie Ouellette discusses The Real World Homecoming, a reboot of the seminal MTV reality show that incorporates reflexivity’s slipperier ways and shows how intertwined the content industries and ordinary people have become. Homecoming gathers the original Real World cast members, now middle-aged, not to produce a sociological account of lived biography or to examine mediated personhood, but to produce value from a dormant brand.
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Film Quarterly has been publishing substantial, peer-reviewed writing on motion pictures since 1958, earning a reputation as the most authoritative academic film journal in the United States. Its wide array of topics, perspectives, and approaches appeals to film scholars and film buffs alike. If you love all types of movies and are eager to encounter new ways of thinking about them, then Film Quarterly is the journal for you! Scholarly analyses of international cinemas, current blockbusters and Hollywood classics, documentaries, animation, and independent, avant-garde, and experimental film and video fill the pages of the journal.