Caught on Tape: White Masculinity and Obscene Enjoyment

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Casey Ryan Kelly (Professor of Rhetoric and Public Culture, Professor of Rhetoric and Public Culture, University of Nebraska - Lincoln)

Caught on Tape

White Masculinity and Obscene Enjoyment

Casey Ryan Kelly (Professor of Rhetoric and Public Culture, Professor of Rhetoric and Public Culture, University of Nebraska - Lincoln)

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English

Oxford University Press Inc
03 October 2023

Films, movies & cinema; Television; Cultural studies; Gender studies, gender groups

In a surveillance culture, the ubiquity of audio-visual recording devices has enabled the unprecedented documentation of private indiscretions, scandalous conversations, and obscene behaviors performed by both ordinary and high-profile people. From former President Donald J. Trump's lewd banter on the infamous Access Hollywood video and leaked audio of celebrity racist tirades to outburst of violent hate speech posted daily to YouTube, contemporary media culture is awash in obscene performances of transgressive white masculinity. Such exposés are screened and viewed under the assumption that revealing secret prejudices will necessarily realize the promises of democracy and bring about a postracial and postfeminist future. This book addresses why the culture of public revelations has failed to hold the perpetrators accountable. Caught on Tape illustrates how public revelations constitute a symbolic and imaginary world for the public that is preoccupied with the obscene enjoyment of transgressive white masculinity: a compulsively repetitive experience of ecstatic and excessive pleasure-in-pain that arises from encounters with that which disturbs, traumatizes, and interrupts illusory notions of our coherent selves and reality. Caught on Tape argues that addressing race and gender inequality with the promise of scandalous hot mics and obscene private videos transforms antiracism and gender justice into disempowering forms of spectatorship that ultimately conceal the structural nature of whiteness, white supremacy, and patriarchy. The central argument of this book is that the spectators are the ones really caught on tape.

By: Casey Ryan Kelly (Professor of Rhetoric and Public Culture Professor of Rhetoric and Public Culture University of Nebraska - Lincoln)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 156mm, Width: 236mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 299g
ISBN: 9780197677872
ISBN 10: 0197677878
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 03 October 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Casey Ryan Kelly is Professor of Rhetoric and Public Culture in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Nebraska. He is author of four books, including Apocalypse Man: The Death Drive and the Rhetoric of White Masculine Victimhood. His work regularly appears in journals such as The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Communication Association's Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award.