<i>The Bachelorette</i>
            's Postfeminist Therapy

Dubrofsky, Rachel E.

doi:10.1002/9781118599594.ch11

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“…The Bachelor/ette is the most successful and long-running reality romance format (Dubrofsky, 2013). It belongs to the "second generation" of reality television: instead of claiming to document reality, like the documentary-style first generation of reality television programs, second generation shows seek to intervene with reality (Kavka, 2012, 113; see also Holmes and Jermyn, 2004, 5).…”

Section: Recapping the Bachelor/ettementioning

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The TV recap as paratext: Energizing, contextualizing, and modifying The Bachelor Australia

McAlister

2021

Media International Australia

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The TV recap has become one of the most ubiquitous forms of criticism in contemporary media culture, proliferating across multiple media spheres and domains. At its simplest, it provides an opportunity for people to catch up with what they have missed. However, it is also a space for engaging with reactions to a program: an inherently affective and social experience. This article seeks to theorize the TV recap, its uses, and its pleasures. It considers the recap as a form of paratext, and seeks to unpack its relationship to textuality. Specifically, it considers the practice of reality TV recapping, which often positions both recapper and reader/viewer as consuming the text ironically. This article uses a corpus of recaps of the 2020 season of The Bachelor Australia – including recaps by the author – to answer three questions: how does the recap energize, contextualize, and modify textuality?

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Section: Recapping the Bachelor/ettementioning

confidence: 99%