Belligerent broadcasting and makeover television : professional incivility in Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares
Higgins, Michael and Montgomery, Martin and Smith, Angela and Tolson, Andrew (2012) Belligerent broadcasting and makeover television : professional incivility in Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 15 (5). pp. 501-518. ISSN 1367-8779
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This article looks at the significance of the practices of ‘belligerent broadcasting’ in the popular ‘trouble-shooting’ business television programme Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, USA. Belligerent broadcasting is a broadcast style that offers as spectacle expressions of anger or impatience, or the exercise of intimidation, against an on-screen interlocutor. Focusing on the performances of Gordon Ramsay, the article analyses the management of on-screen confrontation between participants occupying asymmetrical positions of power and perceived expertise. The article looks at how the face-threatening component of belligerent talk is ameliorated by strategies of authenticity and its representation as a productive force within the narrative of the programme. Finally, we assess the relevance of arguments that this broadcasting style might be seen as part of a ‘new incivility’ across media discourses.
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Higgins, Michael ![]() | Item type: | Article |
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ID code: | 38665 |
Keywords: | business broadcasting, indirect aside, incivility , politeness theory , confrontation talk, Print media, Broadcasting, Cultural Studies |
Subjects: | Fine Arts > Print media Language and Literature > Literature (General) > Broadcasting |
Department: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Humanities > Journalism |
Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
Date deposited: | 24 Mar 2012 06:11 |
Last modified: | 20 Jan 2021 19:59 |
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URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/38665 |
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