Bodies, identities, and voices on American idol
This thesis examines the ways in which American Idol producers rely on the white, Christian, heterosexual, middle-class, Americanness of contestants’ bodies and identities to advance the show’s American Dream narrative. When contestants do not meet all four of the components of Americaness, producer...
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-08-1719 |