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Highlights
- The Bachelor franchise has been around for over two decades and amassed an army of fans across its four shows.
- About the Author: Stevie K. Seibert Desjarlais is an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.
- 256 Pages
- Performing Arts, Television
Description
About the Book
Here for All the Reasons is a collection of personal essays that explore the many reasons why The Bachelor franchise lives rent free in Bachelor Nation's hearts and minds.
Book Synopsis
The Bachelor franchise has been around for over two decades and amassed an army of fans across its four shows. While contestants battle to prove they're here for the right reasons, Bachelor Nation is confronting their own question--Why are we here and why can't we stop watching?
Devout franchise fans Ilana Masad and Stevie Seibert Desjarlais pose the big questions to Bachelor Nation: Who are we? What does the franchise mean to us? And seriously, why on earth can we not stop watching?
For years, fans of the Bachelor franchise have laughed with and at contestants; cried along with their heartbreaks; tuned in again and again each season despite feeling betrayed by producer and contestant decisions alike; and celebrated, alone and together, the love (or loveless) lives of perfect strangers on our television screens. And we wonder, really, why? With reality TV broadly characterized as "trash TV," why are so many intelligent, funny, and critical people watching and discussing it?
Here for All the Reasons seeks to answer this question, diving into the complex negotiations of gender, racial, and class politics that arise within the fandom. This anthology is a polyvocal exploration of Bachelor Nation for Bachelor Nation. So, will you accept our rose and join the chat?
About the Author
Stevie K. Seibert Desjarlais is an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. Her teaching and research interests include representations of gender, race, and class in US literature, film, and pop culture. Her writing appears in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Journal of Popular Film and Television, and Pedagogy. Even though she now lives in Nebraska--with her husband, two dogs, and cat--Stevie is a southern Californian at heart.