West, Amy - Author Biography

Amy West is currently employed as a lecturer in The Department of Film, Television and Media Studies at The University of Auckland, teaching courses in television studies and reality television. She completed a PhD on strategies of intimacy and immediacy in New Zealand’s reality programming in 2007 and has published on reality television’s temporality and caught-on-tape programming. As an extension of previous work, her current research is focused on discourses of dirt in reality television, both as metaphor and material evidence.

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