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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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877911422864

Abstract

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.

Author(s):	Higgins, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5903-952X, Montgomery, Martin, Smith, Angela and Tolson, Andrew
Item type:	Article
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:	23 Aug 2019 02:24
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URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/38665
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