Constructing 'Reality': My Kitchen Rules and Reality TV Cooking Shows

Extreme tension, cutthroat rivalries, heroes and villains: prime-time cooking competitions have all the action and drama of the best scripted television programs, only this is real. Or is it? Michelle Phillipov dissects the eminently popular My Kitchen Rules to sort fact from fiction.

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Teaching Media, middle years, senior secondary, MasterChef, factual entertainment, Australian television, Australian Idol, Big Brother, Twitter, social media, Graeme Turner, celebrity, characterisation, product placement, emotional realism, editing, drama, tension, construction, narrative, advertising.