Abstract
Through an interdisciplinary reading of recent work on the concept of emotion, this article considers how emotion functions within reality and lifestyle television. I argue that emotion is sometimes used as a social tool in a way that obscures differences of class, gender and race. Using devices such as the 'video diary' and the staging of final meetings between participants, programmes such as Wife Swap fashion emotional responses as a means of overcoming difference between the participants and between viewers and participants.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3-15 |
| Journal | Critical Studies in Television |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2008 |