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When Bad Girls Go Good

2009; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 37; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3200/jpft.37.1.34-43

1930-6458

Alice Holbrook, Amy Singer,

Media, Gender, and Advertising

Abstract This article examines the ways in which VH1's Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School (2007) conceptualized ideas of reality and the self. Drawing upon interviews, theoretical research, and the authors' observations, we find that the ideas of reality and the self that Charm School employed rely on very traditional boundaries between reality and unreality, ordinariness and celebrity. These contrast sharply with ideas of the self and reality propounded by Charm School contestants and, ironically, by reality television in general. Keywords: celebrityfeminismidentityreality televisionscriptedness