Extreme Hoards

Race, Reality Television & Real Estate Value During the 2008 Financial Crisis

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ID16714787
AuthorsMichelle Chihara (0000-0003-2984-0049, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume27
Issue3
Publication date2017-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePostmodern Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1053-1920 • E-ISSN: 1053-1920
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/pmc.2018.0002
OpenAlexW2792708903
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited13

Two hit reality television shows, just before 2008 and in the foreclosure crisis just after, disciplined particular economic subjects and naturalized historically specific immanent power structures. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition re-imagined the leveraged construction of massive houses in the exurbs. Its sentimentality and its reliance on ethnic minorities dove-tailed with the rhetoric of social justice that politicians used to push for deregulation of mortgage financing, then later facilitated the popular right-wing narrative blaming minorities. After the crash, Hoarders visually mimicked the stages of foreclosure. While Extreme Home Makeover sought to contain the bodies of the poor as static reserves of value in their own neighborhoods, Hoarders re-identified real estate value with normative mental health and commensurable white feminine domesticity

Art · Criminology · Economics · Financial crisis · Foreclosure · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Real estate · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Cinema and Media Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · University Challenges and Reforms

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