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2. Thank God my life is normal
3. Topics
Looking at the role of stereotypes, class and gender as hegemonic
views, and how these are reinforced throughout an episode of Jeremy
Kyle
Critique of this weeks reading
Addressing the following questions:
How does the dominant ideology get maintained within this
programme?
Who or what is to blame for the contestants problems according to
Kyle?
4. Origins of The Jeremy Kyle Show
The Jeremy Kyle Show began on ITV in July 2005
The programme attracts more than 1.5 million viewers each morning
at 9:25 - 10:30. (whos watching?)
Over half the guests that come onto The Jeremy Kyle Show want a Lie
Detector test.
Jeremy Kyle presents a confrontational talk show in which guests
thrash out their conflicts, dilemmas & relationship issues in
front of a studio audience
5. The Jeremy Kyle Show - Clip
6. Ideology
Jeremy Kyles view is represented as the dominant one, his reading
is taken as the consensus view.
Patriarchal domination .
The ideas of the ruling class are, in every age, the ruling ideas
Marx & Engels (1974)
Ideologies The importance of honesty, family and recognising
responsibility.
7. Beautiful women have easier, more fulfilled lives than other
peopleGilda Carle, All Talk
Feminist Ideology
www.femalefirst.co.uk
It is not the guests but the viewers who are morally
questionable
Who is to blame for these shows?
Self-made freaks
Choice is offered, but the choices are not ones of substance, and
the hope is that we will not notice that the offered choices are no
choices at all.
8. Television often succeeds at making real people vanish into
stereotypes, at positing real audiences as demographics at best,
mindless consumers at worstElizabeth Birmingham, Fearing the
Freak
not fitting cultural definitions of attractive, which diminish a
speakers credibility, particularly when the alternative sanctioned
story is narrated by an attractive expert in a suit
stereotypesare consistently rearticulated from 9-5 everyday
Gramsci and Lived cultures
The chav, the binge drinking teen, the single mum etc
Articulated value system
9. Final Note
What are your personal thoughts of watching trash TV talk shows?
Does it impact your life in anyway?
Who is more morally questionable, the guests, the viewers or the
producers? Or is it simply good entertainment?