Talking Liberties: Framed Youth, Community Video and Channel 4’s Remit in Action

Franklin, Ieuan

doi:10.1057/9781137383556_8

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“…In the United Kingdom, these debates have often evoked the public service obligations, or perceived lack thereof, of Big Brother ’s broadcast contexts. Channel 4, a public service channel and Big Brother ’s initial UK broadcaster, is widely considered a pioneer of sexual minority representation (Franklin, 2014), and the polyvalent identities of Big Brother cast members have been repeatedly mobilised in institutional discourse as evidence of the channel’s commitment to representational diversity in its output (Jackson, 2001). In contrast, the purchasing of the broadcasting rights to Big Brother UK (including Celebrity Big Brother ) by Five in 2011 (a commercial network with a popular reputation for low-quality output) was positioned by commentators as signalling the format’s relinquishing of any sense of public service responsibility (Stephens, 2011).…”

Section: Exploitation or Democracy? Queer Identities Inbig Brother Ukmentioning

confidence: 99%

Acceptance, humanity and emotional excess: The politics of queer suffering inBig BrotherUK

Lovelock

2015

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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While the reality television phenomenon Big Brother has received much scholarly attention, its past and present status as space of prolific representation for lesbian,gay, bisexual, transgender identities has been largely uninterrogated. This article seeks to address this gap, focusing on Big Brother UK. In contrast to popular claims that the inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender participants within the show has engendered a climate of ‘tolerance’ and ‘acceptance’ for sexual minority identities in contemporary British society, I argue that, in line with the broader reality televisual mandates of emotional authenticity, intimacy and excess, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender visibility has been, and continues to be, contingent upon the articulation of a kind of queer emotional suffering. I contend that this suffering is a result of the continuing ‘otherness’ of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people to heterosexual norms of personhood, and while incredibly complex, I argue that the representations of this suffering within Big Brother work ultimately to reproduce the heteronormative

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Section: Exploitation or Democracy? Queer Identities Inbig Brother Ukmentioning

confidence: 99%