Millennials Killed the Video Star av Amanda Ann Klein

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Between 1995 and 2000, the number of music videos airing on MTV dropped by 36 percent. As an alternative to the twenty-four-hour video jukebox the channel had offered during its early years, MTV created an original cycle of scripted reality shows, including <I>Laguna Beach</I>, <I>The Hills</I>, <I>The City</I>, <I>Catfish</I>, and <I>Jersey Shore</I>, which were aimed at predominantly white youth audiences. In <I>Millennials Killed the Video Star</I> Amanda Ann Klein examines the historical, cultural, and industrial factors leading to MTV''s shift away from music videos to reality programming in the early 2000s and 2010s. Drawing on interviews with industry workers from programs such as <I>The Real World</I> and <I>Teen Mom</I>, Klein demonstrates how MTV generated a coherent discourse on youth and identity by intentionally leveraging stereotypes about race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Klein explores how this production cycle, which showcased a variety of ways of being in the world,