Author Archive for: ‘Amy West’

Making Television History: The Past made Present in Reality Television’s Pioneer House

So instead of looking through the window at history we’re actually going to climb through that window to the other side and feel it. (Janice Feyen, Pioneer House) The historical re-enactment reality series, of which Pioneer House (New Zealand 2001) is the first New Zealand example, constitutes an anomaly in reality programming because it signals a clear intention to identify itself with a …

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