TY - JOUR
T1 - Belligerent broadcasting and makeover television
T2 - professional incivility in Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares
AU - Higgins, Michael
AU - Montgomery, Martin
AU - Smith, Angela
AU - Tolson, Andrew
PY - 2012/9/1
Y1 - 2012/9/1
N2 - This article looks at the significance of the practices of ‘belligerent broadcasting’ in the popular ‘trouble-shooting’ business television programme Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, USA. Belligerent broadcasting is a broadcast style that offers as spectacle expressions of anger or impatience, or the exercise of intimidation, against an on-screen interlocutor. Focusing on the performances of Gordon Ramsay, the article analyses the management of on-screen confrontation between participants occupying asymmetrical positions of power and perceived expertise. The article looks at how the face-threatening component of belligerent talk is ameliorated by strategies of authenticity and its representation as a productive force within the narrative of the programme. Finally, we assess the relevance of arguments that this broadcasting style might be seen as part of a ‘new incivility’ across media discourses.
AB - This article looks at the significance of the practices of ‘belligerent broadcasting’ in the popular ‘trouble-shooting’ business television programme Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, USA. Belligerent broadcasting is a broadcast style that offers as spectacle expressions of anger or impatience, or the exercise of intimidation, against an on-screen interlocutor. Focusing on the performances of Gordon Ramsay, the article analyses the management of on-screen confrontation between participants occupying asymmetrical positions of power and perceived expertise. The article looks at how the face-threatening component of belligerent talk is ameliorated by strategies of authenticity and its representation as a productive force within the narrative of the programme. Finally, we assess the relevance of arguments that this broadcasting style might be seen as part of a ‘new incivility’ across media discourses.
KW - business broadcasting
KW - indirect aside
KW - incivility
KW - politeness theory
KW - confrontation talk
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84864781296&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://ics.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/11/05/1367877911422864.full.pdf+html
U2 - 10.1177/1367877911422864
DO - 10.1177/1367877911422864
M3 - Article
SN - 1367-8779
VL - 15
SP - 501
EP - 518
JO - International Journal of Cultural Studies
JF - International Journal of Cultural Studies
IS - 5
ER -