"A New Reality: Appreciating Reality TV Through Shakespeare"
Reality TV is a genre that slowly taking over the networks. The
American audience has been enthralled with the new found ability to peering
into the lives of seemingly normal, everyday people placed in fantastic
and unusual circumstances. Today the genre has grown to include various
subcategories of reality TV that bring in upwards of 20 million viewers a
night. However, despite this undeniable attraction America seems to have
with reality television, critics and viewers alike have managed to find great
fault within the genre referring to it as "trash", arguing that it
brings no "intellectualism" or "stimulating" material to
our culture and creating environment in which those who actually enjoy the
genre are seen as lacking "intellectualism" themselves. By
focusing so greatly on these negative aspects, critics are missing the amount
of effort that goes into producing and editing the story behind reality TV. If
we change up the lens in which we examine the process behind reality TV,
comparing it to the world’s greatest storyteller, Shakespeare, we are able to
pull back the curtain and appreciate reality TV for what it really is: story
telling.
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