Medicalized reality weight-loss television and the negotiation of neoliberalism on my 600 Pound Life

IF 0.9 2区艺术学 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION

Critical Studies in Television Pub Date : 2022-10-13 DOI:10.1177/17496020221134014

Melissa Zimdars

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Abstract

On their surface, medicalised reality television series about food addiction and fatness seem to reinforce the same discourses of neoliberalism that have come to define our understanding of contemporary reality TV. However, this article considers how one of these shows, My 600 Pound Life (2012), negotiates and de-centres discourses of neoliberalism through medicalisation and spectacle. The bodies and behaviours on medicalised reality TV programmes can be engendering of sympathy as much or more than of discipline and shame, which reflects expanding and shifting narratives of the ‘obesity epidemic’.

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医疗现实减肥电视和新自由主义在我600磅生活中的谈判

从表面上看，关于食物成瘾和肥胖的医学真人秀似乎强化了新自由主义的话语，这些话语已经定义了我们对当代真人秀电视的理解。然而，本文考虑了其中一个节目《我的600磅生活》(2012)是如何通过医疗化和奇观化来协商和去中心化新自由主义话语的。医学真人秀节目中的身体和行为可能会引起同情，甚至更多，而不是纪律和羞耻，这反映了“肥胖流行病”的不断扩大和变化。

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Critical Studies in Television FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION-

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2.10

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30.00%

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期刊介绍： Critical Studies in Television publishes articles that draw together divergent disciplines and different ways of thinking, to promote and advance television as a distinct academic discipline. It welcomes contributions on any aspect of television—production studies and institutional histories, audience and reception studies, theoretical approaches, conceptual paradigms and pedagogical questions. It continues to invite analyses of the compositional principles and aesthetics of texts, as well as contextual matters relating to both contemporary and past productions. CST also features book reviews, dossiers and debates. The journal is scholarly but accessible, dedicated to generating new knowledge and fostering a dynamic intellectual platform for television studies.