Olivia Stowell is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan, where she studies race and labor in contemporary television and popular culture. Her work has appeared in Television and New Media, Critical Studies in Television, Los Angeles Review of Books, Post45 Contemporaries, and elsewhere.
Olivia Stowell
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Pre-Recession Bliss, or Ignorance: “Laguna Beach” @ 20
There’s a connection between Laguna Beach’s lush close-ups of LC’s face and its recurrent, luxuriating shots of Orange County mansions.
