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to become “America’s next top model”. In this article, we extend previous accounts of the construction of gendered racial identities on ANTM (Hasinoff, 2008; Squires, 2008; Thompson, 2010) by examining the emotional cost and labour involved in inhabiting this double bind. We demonstrate how experiences of
- Case Study: America’s Next Top Model Cycle 12, Episode 7, “Acting Like a Model”
- Foucauldian Discourse and America’s Next Top Model: Transformation and Commodification
- Foucault and Normalising Models
- Recent Developments to the Top Model Format
- Conclusion
This case study will identify the ways in which this episode of ANTM6 ex-emplifies discourses of normalisation and docile bodies intertwined with the Foucaultian notion of “cultivation of self.” Through disciplining the body, the “self” emerges, hence the body becomes a site for exploring identity. In ep-isode 7, the eight contestants were given le...
RTV programs are centred on surveillance, characterised by panoptic pow-er processes. The ANTM cameras chronicle the journey of contestants on the show—sharing similarities with the panopticon. An architectural design by Bentham, the panopticon allows an observer to watch prisoners without them knowing when they are being watched.16 Under constant ...
As part of the disciplinary nature of ANTM, normalisation becomes en-forced by judgement. According to Foucault, disciplinary regimes aim to regulate the behaviour of individuals, binded by normalising codes and standards.38 These standards are regulated in accordance with critiques and the constant assessment of the girls. On ANTM, lessons, challe...
Cycle 17 was an “All-Star” cycle, featuring contestants from almost every cycle prior. These contestants did not win their cycle, but placed well and were memorable personalities. “All Stars” was more intensely focused on branding than prior cycles, also reflected in the prize package. In addition to a spread in Vogue Italia and a CoverGirl contrac...
ANTM brings a new meaning to Foucault’s concepts of “cultivation of the self”69 and discipline and punishment through docility and normalisation. Not far removed from the panopticon, this constructed “reality” naturalises these Foucauldian notions. Constant tests, challenges and critiques facili-tate the girls’ metamorphosis, situating “RTV as less...
Aug 5, 2010 · Abstract. America' s Next Top Model (ANTM), the popular reality television show produced by and starring Tyra Banks, has garnered a sizeable audience over its thirteen seasons. Synergistically marketed to readers of Young People and Teen Magazine, ANTM enjoys an audience of five million viewers mostly from the 18–35 year-old female demographic.
- Mary Thompson
- 2010
Request PDF | On May 1, 2011, Sarah Cefai and others published No such thing as standard beauty: intersectionality and embodied feeling on America’s Next Top Model | Find, read and cite...
My analysis of Top Model demonstrates the need for studies of neoliberalism and reality TV to better account for racial representation, and the necessity of scholarship on race, gender, and popular culture to interrogate the impact of the rhetorics of neoliberalism.
I contend that the racial rhetoric of Top Model makes race hyper-visible as a malleable commodity and confirms the neoliberal fantasy of the structural irrelevance of race and class in the US by satisfying the demand for recognizable tropes of racialized feminine beauty that only reference hardship or disadvantage as something that can be ...
Mar 23, 2018 · The models learn personality goes a long way as they are challenged to design an avatar for the new America's Next Top Model mobile game. Later, the ladies...
