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TV Review

The Real World XI: Chicago

by Chris Fitzpatrick

[17.Jul.02] :. MTV's 'The Real World' has become a mainline for cultural propagation. The archetype of the 'reality tv' genre, this weekly, pretend-documentary consolidates, edits, and cannibalizes culture.

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Married in America

by Lesley Smith

[26.Jun.02] :. Documentarian Michael Apted doesn't allow any sequence to run long enough for good manners to disappear and feelings (rather than public rationalizations of feelings) to emerge.

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Film Review

About A Boy (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.May.02] :. 'About A Boy' is not 'The Hugh Show'. Thank goodness.

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TV Review

The Real World

by Susan Brown

Ultimately, 'The Real World' is just as conservative as any network sitcom, selecting characters for their exemplary 'blackness' (or 'gayness,' or 'hayseed-ness'), rather than presenting anything approximating diversity.

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