Love Island: A Flirtation With Surveillance

Get a whole month of great cinema FREE on MUBI: https://mubi.com/broeydeschanel With the support of Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union Resources if you or a friend are struggling: Samaritans - United Kingdom: 116 123 https://www.samaritans.org/ The National Suicide Prevention Hotline - United States: 1-800-273-8255 https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ NAMI (the National Alliance on Mental Illness) - United States: https://www.nami.org/Home Crisis Services Canada: 1.833.456.4566 https://www.crisisservicescanada.ca/en/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thumbnail by Nick Woodcock Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/broeydeschanel Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/broey_deschanel/ Hannah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hannahmraine/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DeschanelBroey Further Watching: Alice Cappelle's video on vloggers and the panopticon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDklDH4PVAs&ab_channel=AliceCappelle Tara Mooknee's video on Love Island and hollow diversity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxPry8SXpTI&ab_channel=TaraMooknee Ada on Demand's video on Love Island and misogynoir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5vvCwIL8bE&t=61s&ab_channel=AdaOnDemand Sources and Further Reading: Deery, June. Reality TV, Polity Press, (2015) Goldfine, Jael. "The Strange Magic of Iain Stirling’s Narration on Love Island UK," GQ (2021). Jeong, Sarah. “‘Love Island’ Is a Riveting Human Rights Violation” The New York Times (2019). Kavka, Misha. Reality TV, Edinburgh University Press (2012). Klein, Amanda Ann. "Millennials Killed the Video Star", Duke University Press, (2021). L'Hoiry, Xavier. “Love Island, Social Media, and Sousveillance: New Pathways of Challenging Realism in Reality TV” Frontiers, (2019). Mathiesen, Thomas. (1997). “The Viewer Society: Michel Foucault’s ‘Panopticon’ Revisited.In: Theoretical Criminology, 1(2): 215‐234. Poster, Mike. “Databases as Discourse, or Electronic Interpellations” U of Minnesota Press (1996). https://researchvalues2018.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/poster-database-discourse.pdf Stoppard, Lou. "The Glorious Depravity of the British “Love Island”," The New Yorker. Wong, James . “Here's looking at you: Reality TV, Big Brother, and Foucault” . Canadian Journal of Communication ; Toronto Vol. 26, Iss. 4, (2001): 489-501. Niall's interview: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/love-island-niall-aslam-autism-psychotic-episode-b1875303.html Zara's interview: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7042803/The-hateful-truth-Love-Island-Ex-Miss-GB-reveals-contestants-told-say.html "Logistical Difficulties" quote: https://www.them.us/story/love-island-producers-say-lgbtq-contestants-pose-difficulties