inherentes en el feminismo blanco . Finalmente , este artículo argumenta que en la segunda temporada de UnREAL se construyen conscientemente injusticias raciales y de género y estereotipos en un esfuerzo exitoso para hacer que la audiencia reflexione acerca de la injusticia patriarcal y racial en la sociedad contemporánea . El resultado de este análisis es que UnREAL constituye una iteración exitosa del proyecto feminista de la iniciativa Broad Focus de Lifetime , una que incluye una crítica de elementos racistas del feminismo blanco liberal .
Palabras clave : UnREAL , esencialismo en los medios , racismo en el feminismo , iniciativa Broad Focus , crítica feminista
Introduction
UnREAL is a critically acclaimed Lifetime program about the chaotic production of a fictional dating competition television program , Everlasting . Two seasons have aired , the third begins in early 2018 , and the production of the fourth season began in late 2017 . UnREAL functions as part of Lifetime ’ s Broad Focus initiative , which aims to provide opportunities for women to write , direct , and produce programs with female-focused stories . Thus , the real-world context of the program ’ s production is one that aims to undermine patriarchy in the entertainment industry . Further , the program depicts women either vying for control or actually in control of the production of the fictionalized dating competition , Everlasting , which is based not loosely on ABC ’ s The Bachelor . ( Its co-creator , Gertrude Shapiro , worked on the set of The Bachelor and found her experience “ soul-sucking ”). Thus , UnREAL provides a unique set of layered contexts to mine for feminist and , in Season 2 , anti-racist liberatory themes . This article focuses on the meta-
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