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Between 1995 and 2000, the number of music videos airing on MTV
dropped by 36 percent. As an alternative to the twenty-four-hour
video jukebox the channel had offered during its early years, MTV
created an original cycle of scripted reality shows, including
Laguna Beach, The Hills, The City, Catfish, and Jersey Shore, which
were aimed at predominantly white youth audiences. In Millennials
Killed the Video Star Amanda Ann Klein examines the historical,
cultural, and industrial factors leading to MTV's shift away from
music videos to reality programming in the early 2000s and 2010s.
Drawing on interviews with industry workers from programs such as
The Real World and Teen Mom, Klein demonstrates how MTV generated a
coherent discourse on youth and identity by intentionally
leveraging stereotypes about race, ethnicity, gender, and class.
Klein explores how this production cycle, which showcased a variety
of ways of being in the world, has played a role in identity
construction in contemporary youth culture-ultimately shaping the
ways in which Millennial audiences of the 2000s thought about,
talked about, and embraced a variety of identities.
Between 1995 and 2000, the number of music videos airing on MTV
dropped by 36 percent. As an alternative to the twenty-four-hour
video jukebox the channel had offered during its early years, MTV
created an original cycle of scripted reality shows, including
Laguna Beach, The Hills, The City, Catfish, and Jersey Shore, which
were aimed at predominantly white youth audiences. In Millennials
Killed the Video Star Amanda Ann Klein examines the historical,
cultural, and industrial factors leading to MTV's shift away from
music videos to reality programming in the early 2000s and 2010s.
Drawing on interviews with industry workers from programs such as
The Real World and Teen Mom, Klein demonstrates how MTV generated a
coherent discourse on youth and identity by intentionally
leveraging stereotypes about race, ethnicity, gender, and class.
Klein explores how this production cycle, which showcased a variety
of ways of being in the world, has played a role in identity
construction in contemporary youth culture-ultimately shaping the
ways in which Millennial audiences of the 2000s thought about,
talked about, and embraced a variety of identities.
With sequels, prequels, remakes, spin-offs, or copies of successful
films or franchises dominating film and television production, it
sometimes seems as if Hollywood is incapable of making an original
film or TV show. These textual pluralities or multiplicities-while
loved by fans who flock to them in droves-tend to be dismissed by
critics and scholars as markers of the death of high culture.
Cycles, Sequels, Spin-offs, Remakes, and Reboots takes the opposite
view, surveying a wide range of international media multiplicities
for the first time to elucidate their importance for audiences,
industrial practices, and popular culture. The essays in this
volume offer a broad picture of the ways in which cinema and
television have used multiplicities to streamline the production
process, and to capitalize on and exploit viewer interest in
previously successful and/or sensational story properties. An
impressive lineup of established and emerging scholars talk
seriously about forms of multiplicity that are rarely discussed as
such, including direct-to-DVD films made in Nigeria, cross-cultural
Japanese horror remakes, YouTube fan-generated trailer mash-ups,
and 1970s animal revenge films. They show how considering the
particular bonds that tie texts to one another allows us to
understand more about the audiences for these texts and why they
crave a version of the same story (or character or subject) over
and over again. These findings demonstrate that, far from being
lowbrow art, multiplicities are actually doing important cultural
work that is very worthy of serious study.
A series of movies that share images, characters, settings, plots,
or themes, film cycles have been an industrial strategy since the
beginning of cinema. While some have viewed them as "subgenres,"
mini-genres, or nascent film genres, Amanda Ann Klein argues that
film cycles are an entity in their own right and a subject worthy
of their own study. She posits that film cycles retain the marks of
their historical, economic, and generic contexts and therefore can
reveal much about the state of contemporary politics, prevalent
social ideologies, aesthetic trends, popular desires, and
anxieties. American Film Cycles presents a series of case studies
of successful film cycles, including the melodramatic gangster
films of the 1920s, the 1930s Dead End Kids cycle, the 1950s
juvenile delinquent teenpic cycle, and the 1990s ghetto action
cycle. Klein situates these films in several historical
trajectories—the Progressive movement of the 1910s and 1920s, the
beginnings of America's involvement in World War II, the "birth" of
the teenager in the 1950s, and the drug and gangbanger crises of
the early 1990s. She shows how filmmakers, audiences, film
reviewers, advertisements, and cultural discourses interact with
and have an impact on the film texts. Her findings illustrate the
utility of the film cycle in broadening our understanding of
established film genres, articulating and building upon beliefs
about contemporary social problems, shaping and disseminating
deviant subcultures, and exploiting and reflecting upon racial and
political upheaval.
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