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Something real
Since the cancellation of her family's reality television show, seventeen-year-old Bonnie Baker, one of twelve siblings, has tried to live a normal life with real friends and a possible boyfriend, until her mother and the show's producers decide to bring \"Baker's Dozen\" back on the air.
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Deus Ex Machina
On a distant island, reality show contestants battle for bragging rights and a slot on next week's episode. They've perfected their dramatic roles and are prepared to do whatever it takes to win. There's the take-no-prisoners Marine sergeant, the gay hairdresser, the ruthless lawyer, the brainy poet. But one player refuses to compete--Gloria Hamm, a sullen dental hygienist, voted least likely to win by the show's crew. The higher-ups are desperate for ratings and sensational twists to trump the plots of seasons past. But the producer--haunted by personal tragedies all too real--is losing control of the show and its crew. While he obsesses about Gloria, the crew plots mutiny, a contestant dances with insanity, and disease threatens to halt the show completely. When real catastrophes strike, the producer finds it harder and harder to navigate his surreal landscape, where boundaries of the real, imagined, and orchestrated have blurred beyond recognition. Deus Ex Machina deconstructs our notions of narrative, revealing how tricky it is for any auteur to disappear from his creation. In an age when people will seemingly do anything to be on television, it asks what is the true nature of \"reality,\" and what is its cost?.
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The two-plate solution : a novel of culinary mayhem in the Middle East
The Two-Plate Solution is a satire about reality TV cooking competitions that features a diverse cast of chefs, TV producers, and terrorists-turned-cheftestants! It's fun and a bit wild, but the author takes the characters and the food very seriously.
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Neo-Imperial Island Fantasy in Contemporary French Reality TV: The Case of Koh-Lanta
This article examines the literary elements of the French reality TV show Koh-Lanta. Drawing on the theory of reality TV, it demonstrates that this literary dimension facilitates the incorporation of neo-imperial elements. Koh-Lanta inscribes itself in the diversity of the intertext of the island fantasy, keeping the myth of Robinson up to date.
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Hacked
While on location in Costa Rica, Cassidy discovers that her blog has been hacked and wonders about Logan's strange behavior.
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Poisoning cases in the German crime series Tatort (crime scene) from 1974 to 2022
Poisoning occurs frequently in TV crime series but, to the best of our knowledge, has not yet been analyzed scientifically. This study examines the plausibility of poisoning cases in Germany’s most popular crime series,
Tatort
(crime scene), from 1974 to 2022. In the TV series, the increasing rate of poisoning in Germany as well as the increasing variety of substances leading to poisoning over the years are depicted. Largely in line with reality, similar substance categories and routes of administration are presented. However, poisoning outcomes in
Tatort
differ from reality: over 50% of the victims die in
Tatort
, whereas in reality, more than 80% survive. In > 95% of the episodes, the mechanism of action of a poison is not explained, omitting an important opportunity for raising public awareness. The TV series also deviates from reality in terms of the etiology of poisonings: External poison delivery is largely overrepresented, while the high rate of accidental poisonings in real life is underrepresented. Almost no accidental poisonings occur in
Tatort
, although this is the most frequent type of poisoning in real life. In
Tatort
, men are overrepresented as offenders and victims of poisoning compared to reality. Thus, the crime series does not convey the message that anyone can be a potential victim of poisoning and that particularly vulnerable groups need proper education and the best possible protection. This paper discusses the conflict between detailed, plausible episodes with cases of poisoning and the potential for imitation that they may cause.
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(Im)possible Histories: Race-Changing and other “Crude Thoughts” in Lovecraft Country
The dominance of cinematic realism stems from its presumed ability to marshal something that looks and feels like evidence: consider, for example, the attention paid to period details in costume and setting, to speech patterns and dialogue, to getting it right. [...]even as realism builds the world of the past on details meant to render it visually and aurally different from the present, in some fundamental ways, it nevertheless, domesticates that past by making it accessible emotionally, by inviting identification even with characters understood to be at a significant temporal or geographical remove from the viewer. The television series is ambitious on every register-stylistically, generically, and in its aim to produce a form of critical, practical historical knowledge about race in the US. What I want to suggest is that by staging the impossible, in Kracauers words, \"combinfing] parts and segments to create strange constructs\" (62)-in this case, literal and graphic race-changing-I ovecraft Country strives to provoke critical insights in its viewers about race and the social processes of race making in Jim Crow Chicago, and also to literalize the way in which whiteness and white privilege are themselves a kind of \"magical\" social power.
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Reality
Luciano is a Neapolitan fishmonger who supplements his modest income by pulling off little scams together with his wife Maria. A likeable, entertaining guy, Luciano never misses an opportunity to perform for his customers and countless relatives. One day, his family urges him to try out for Big Brother. In chasing this dream, his perception of reality begins to change.
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