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EPEPodcast- a podcast about masculinity07 Dorsey's unvanted masculinity part1Part_1_Reading_Booklet 07 Dorsey’s unwanted masculinity36 pages A5, text and image collage.My third look at GOLD RUSH ALASKA. This time I study how Jimmy Dorsey’s masculinity was portrayed. He’s a white-collar, ”Hipster-hunk” dropped into a world of Blue-collar Masculinity, in the Alaskan wilderness. Dorsey was part of the show the first 6 episodes and left after a fight with another participant. A ‘close reading’ of all the scenes he appears in the show. followed by the way Dorsey and these scenes are discussed in Youtube comments This leads to questions of authenticity, real vs fake, that...2020-05-2037 min
EPEPodcast- a podcast about masculinity03 - Deadliest catch part2 of booklet 2 page 6-10Booklet 03 deadliest catch2. https://asjoberg.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/09catch2_compressed.pdf32 pages, A4, black and white.Text collage. After the first booklet about ”The deadliest catch” that scratched the surface, I wanted to dive down deeper into the deadly cold depth and investigate this series and its production of contemporary masculinity.https://asjoberg.wordpress.com/e-p-e-pod/2020-05-2025 min
EPEPodcast- a podcast about masculinity04 - Deadliest catch booklet 3 engBooklet 04 deadliest catch3https://asjoberg.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/08catch3_compressed.pdf12 pages A5 text / image.One (short) third look at the CRAB-FISHERMEN. Texts from the book MASCULINITY IN CONTEMPORARY QUALITY TELEVIOSN: Re-masculinisation in the creation relates to Naomi Klein’s book ‘The shock doctrine’. This is one way of looking at the promotion of certain masculinities as a form of propaganda. And to act when society is in shock. And ‘the wild bunch’. This shock/propaganda is also related to Susan Faludi’s book Backlash, she lists example after example of how in conspiracy-like ways patriarchal power holder...2020-05-2017 min
EPEPodcast- a podcast about masculinity05 Hyperreal Gold - And maps of masculinityBooklet 05 hyperreal gold 44 pages , A5, black and white.My first look at the reality tv-show: ‘Gold Rush Alaska’. Collaging of video stills from a ‘behind-the.scenes’ episode and text about Jean Baudrillard’s concept of ‘Hyper-reality’ to try to unpack the different layers of reality and how we as viewers relate to them when we create our masculine identities._https://asjoberg.wordpress.com/e-p-e-pod/_https://asjoberg.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/07-hyper-real-gold-levels-bra_compressed.pdf2020-05-2017 min
EPEPodcast- a podcast about masculinity06 Masculinity crisis vs todd and Jack HoffmanReading from the booklet: Booklet 06 The Great Recession and masculinity crisis vs Todd and Jack Hoffman.28 pages black and white. Text and image collage. Inthis booklet, I look at the very first episode of GOLD RUSH ALASKA, and how it is framed relating to the great recession in 2008. A Group of unemployed guys decides to ”ball up and go out into the frontier” and dig for gold. I specific case study of how ”real” masculinity relates to blue-collar- and rural- even frontier-masculinity. In the end, the booklet even turns itself into a cowboy and Indian comic-bo...2020-05-2047 min
EPEPodcast- a podcast about masculinity08 wild west masculintyReading from the Booklet "08 wilda vestern maskulinitet"19 pages, A5, color/black-n-white. In this booklet,I preset the project more deeply in Swedish. And we are introduced to a number of Western Legends, such as Buffalo Bill and Kit Carsen. And I try to undress these ”Avatars” as examples of old ”genuine” or ”real” men, and show them in their propaganda-like coming into being., In a way these guys, just like Todd Hoffman and Jimmi Dorsey from GOLD RUSH ALASKA are Hyper-real. In the sense that at the same time that their bodies are existing in the world they a...2020-05-2041 minEPEPodcast- a podcast about masculinity07 Dorsey's unwanted masculinity part2PART 1 reading from Booklet 07 Dorsey’s unwanted masculinity36 pages A5, text, and image collage.My third look at GOLD RUSH ALASKA. This time I study how Jimmy Dorsey’s masculinity was portrayed. He’s a white-collar, ”Hipster-hunk” dropped into a world of Blue-collar Masculinity, in the Alaskan wilderness. Dorsey was part of the show the first 6 episodes and left after a fight with another participant. A ‘close reading’ of all the scenes he appears in the show. followed by the way Dorsey and these scenes are discussed in Youtube comments This leads to questions of authenticity, real vs fake...2020-05-2041 min
EPEPodcast- a podcast about masculinity02 - Deadliest catch - the sons of Ernest Hemingway - booklet 1Reading from the zine - Booklet 02 deadliest catch 1.28 pages, A5, color / black and white.Collage of image and texts from many sources but all relating to the Discovery channel reality TV-series ”The deadliest catch”, and how this show relates to masculinity.https://asjoberg.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/05catch1_compressed.pdfhttps://asjoberg.wordpress.com/e-p-e-pod/2020-05-2024 min