Stephen Tropiano, associate professor of television-radio and director of the Ithaca College Los Angeles Program, has been awarded first prize in the 2007 University Film and Video Association National Paper Prize Competition.
His essay, entitled "Playing It Straight: Reality Dating Shows and the Construction of Heterosexuality," examines the construction of homosexuality in reality television programming.
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