Telling stories about farming: Mediated authenticity and New Zealand's Country Calendar

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dc.citation.issue1
dc.citation.volume23
dc.contributor.authorFountaine S
dc.contributor.authorBulmer S
dc.date.available2022-01
dc.date.issued2022-01
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dc.description.abstractMediated authenticity in New Zealand’s Country Calendar (CC) television program is explored from the perspective of its producers, and rural and urban audiences. Paradoxically, CC is understood as both “real” and “honest” television and a constructed, idyllic version of the rural good life in New Zealand. Techniques and devices such as a predictable narrative arc, consistent narration, invisible reporting and directing, and naturalized sound and vision contribute to the show’s predictability, ordinariness, spontaneity and im/perfection, mediating an authentic yet aspirational view of farming life. We elucidate how factual, primetime television contributes to a shared national sense of “who we are” while navigating different audience experiences and expectations. At stake is New Zealanders’ attachment to rural identity, which underpins public policy commitments to the farming sector, at a time when new agricultural politics are increasingly contested.
dc.description.publication-statusPublished
dc.format.extent81 - 99
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dc.identifierARTN 1527476420966756
dc.identifier.citationTELEVISION & NEW MEDIA, 2022, 23 (1), pp. 81 - 99
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1527476420966756
dc.identifier.eissn1552-8316
dc.identifier.elements-id435481
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn1527-4764
dc.publisherSAGE Publications
dc.relation.isPartOfTELEVISION & NEW MEDIA
dc.subjectrural
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjecttelevision producers
dc.subjectaudiences
dc.subjectmedia
dc.subject.anzsrc1902 Film, Television and Digital Media
dc.subject.anzsrc2001 Communication and Media Studies
dc.subject.anzsrc2002 Cultural Studies
dc.titleTelling stories about farming: Mediated authenticity and New Zealand's Country Calendar
dc.typeJournal article
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