Reality television and the politics of mass surveillance in channel 4’s hunted

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

Critical Studies in Television Pub Date : 2023-07-15 DOI:10.1177/17496020231185103

Sean Brayton

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Abstract

This paper is interested in representations of mass surveillance in Hunted, Channel 4’s reality tv series in which ‘ordinary British citizens’ roleplay as ‘fugitives’ that must evade surveillance and capture by ‘the state.’ Here contentious powers of state surveillance are mitigated by (a) the programme’s deployment of a myth of surveillance ‘symmetry’ and a ‘fugitive fantasy’ that obfuscate the racial politics of ‘being watched’ in a post-9/11 climate; (b) personal stories of contestants or ‘fugitives’ that enable a ‘therapeutic self’ that situates the mass surveillance experience as productive and transformative; and (c) the ‘gamification’ of surveillance itself.

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真人秀电视和第四频道的大规模监控政治

本文对第四频道的真人秀节目《猎杀》中大规模监控的表现感兴趣，在该节目中，“普通英国公民”扮演“逃犯”，必须逃避“国家”的监视和抓捕。在这里，有争议的国家监视权力通过以下方式得到缓解:(a)该计划部署了监视“对称”的神话和“逃亡幻想”，在9/11后的气候中混淆了“被监视”的种族政治;(b)参赛者或“逃亡者”的个人故事，使“治疗自我”成为可能，将大规模监视的经历定位为富有成效和变革的;(c)监控本身的“游戏化”。

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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.