It sees such a preference as one possible response to the onslaught of images of perfection and the cult of the body beautiful, and thus as a mode of resistance to consumer culture. This paper draws on interviews with people working in the image industries, including a maker of homemade porn, to explore the paradoxes of this interest in the mundane. His implied preference for the rawness of the amateur over the slickness of the professional has been viewed with some suspicion.
This paper is a preliminary study only. In the postmodern world, many of the pictures we live with are sexualised images of youth and perfection. They have become part of the air we breathe. Like them or not, we cannot ignore them and we constantly respond to them in both conscious and unconscious ways.
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Sometimes we choose to emulate the images we see; at other times, we may reject them as ideals. Several decades of extremely intense pressure on ordinary people to emulate the increasingly fabricated images they see around them are beginning to produce a backlash. The taste for the ordinary can be seen as a reaction to the glut of glamour media images with which we are all constantly bombarded, and reality genres are, at least in part, bound up in this.
The last couple of decades have seen an exponential rise in reality genres of many kinds. New televisual forms have rapidly evolved and they will no doubt continue to do so in order to keep pace with viewer sophistication.
Jon Dovey has identified four categories within televisual camcorder genres alone: happenstance amateur video, surveillance-derived programs, covert investigative films, and self-made diary projects TV networks have been keen on such genres because they are cheap minimising the costs of scriptwriters and actors , and because they tap into voyeuristic impulses that prove popular with audiences. It was, however, the decade of its institutionalisation as a major televisual form Dovey Technological changes have been rapid over the last few decades, and have impacted on both the economics of porn production and the cultures of porn viewing.
