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Rural Reality: How Reality Television Portrayals of Appalachian People Impact Their View of Their Culture

Appalachian people have faced stereotyping of their culture and region in popular culture, news media, and art for generations. For more than 150 years, images of the region have been extracted by outside media makers and disseminated widely, solidifying the “hillbilly” stereotype in the national lexicon. This study focuses on such images in reality television shows about Appalachia, and seeks to determine whether or not those images, and the proliferation of them, has an impact on the ways in which Appalachian people understand and accept their own culture.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:uky.edu/oai:uknowledge.uky.edu:cld_etds-1025
Date01 January 2016
CreatorsBrashear, Ivy Jude Elise
PublisherUKnowledge
Source SetsUniversity of Kentucky
Detected LanguageEnglish
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SourceTheses and Dissertations--Community and Leadership Development

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