![]() ![]() There’s kind of a “well-made play” element to this. There are all these dynamics that they can just content. ![]() I view the Kardashians as a prompt and a prism, because they give us so much content, there’s so many of them, and they do so many things. Why does The Kardashians deserve a more academic approach? But what you’ve done is really take a serious look at a show that a lot of people dismiss as superficial, tabloid-esque television. Reality TV and scripted television are not really viewed as being in the same world, mostly because I think writers, creators and actors see reality shows as a less legitimate exploration of the medium. And so really my account became an excuse for me to, and it helped me understand postmodern theory - and media theory - better. He explores exactly that weird liminal space that the show lives in.” It became fascinating through that lens. I told my sister about it, who was a film student at the time, and she was like, “Oh, yeah, you have to read Jean Baudrillard. There was a moment when Rob said to Kim: “Mom raised you better than that, Dad raised you better than that.” the Bora Bora episode, where Kim and Rob Kardashian are arguing at that resort, it was that typical staged Kardashian antics energy, but then again this fight felt very real. I had seen reality shows in the past that didn’t really grab me like this it didn’t feel as much like junk food for the brain like many other reality shows had felt for me. I was moved by how uncanny and weird it felt. I noticed her but I wasn’t interested in reality TV so I was just peripherally aware of them.Īnd then in 2018, a friend put on Keeping Up With the Kardashians, and I was kind of, like, affected. At the time, I liked the fact that Kim was this ethnically ambiguous person in the spotlight during the early aughts era of certain beauty ideals. ![]() I was a fan of Kanye ’s music, so when he started dating Kim, I noticed it and thought it made sense in a weird way. I was never really that interested in the Kardashians. What motivated you to start this work analyzing the Kardashians and their empire? MJ Corey spoke with THR about postmodernism, why she sees the Kardashians as an entertainment corporation, why she thinks they speak so “simplistically” and how her Instagram account has become “a journey of documenting self-study and trying to bring people into it.” With each post, she dissects not only the nuances of language by close-reading the dialogue of the show, but also their hyperconsciousness of media and images, and how they’ve been able to curate a hyperreal universe uniquely their own. And more and more, to get people to care about stuff, it needs to be presented in a fun way.”Ĭorey’s account is an extended, living dissertation on the Kardashian family and what they represent in today’s culture. “I feel like we’re witnessing the slo-mo swan song of critical thought and it feels important to model critical thinking frameworks for people. “Applying theory to the Kardashians helped me understand the theory better, and my hope is to make it feel more accessible to other people too,” Corey says. ![]()
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