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Family No Longer Sustains: On Michael Szalay’s “Second Lives”
Olivia Stowell reviews Michael Szalay’s “Second Lives: Black-Market Melodramas & the Reinvention of Television.”
Olivia Stowell
Olivia Stowell is a PhD student at the University of Michigan, where she studies race, discourse, and power in relation to reality television and digital media. Her scholarship has appeared in Television & New Media, New Review of Film and Television Studies, and the forthcoming volume Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media. Her public writing has been published in Post45 Contemporaries, ASAP/J, Avidly, and elsewhere.