Blake Beaver

Journal Article Television and New Media · November 1, 2024 This article explores the fabrication of liveness, understood as a category of affective urgency and narrative motivation, in two reality series derived from a sex tape scandal: Keeping Up with the Kardashians and The Kardashians. The reality programs narr ... Full text Cite

Howard L. Kaye, Freud as a Social and Cultural Theorist: On Human Nature and the Civilizing Process

Other Psychoanalysis and History · 2022 Link to item Cite

Feel-Sad TV: Sadness Pornography in Contemporary Serials

Journal Article disClosure · December 2019 This article develops a theory of sadness pornographies in contemporary feel-sad television. Under the sad porn category, the essay explores a key sub-genre in contemporary serial dramas: trauma porn. The article is anchored in an affective analysis of two ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite