| Description |
x, 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Film & history |
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Film & history (Lexington, Ky.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This book provides a critical analysis of the growing phenomenon of realtiy TV, its evolution as a genre, and its historic roots in American culture. The contributors inspect a wide variety of shows from the 1950s to the present, detailing little-known truths of reality TV.--[book jacket] |
| Contents |
Citizen Funt : surveillance as Cold War entertainment / Fred Nadis -- From social experiment to postmodern jokes : Big brother and the progressive construction of celebrity / Lee Barron -- From the kitchen to 10 Downing Street : Jamie's school dinners and the politics of reality cooking / James Leggott and Tobias Hochscherf -- The patriotic American is a thin American : fatness and national identity in The biggest loser / Cassandra L. Jones -- Disillusionment, divorce, and the destruction of the American dream : An American family and the rise of reality TV / Laurie Rupert and Sayanti Ganguly Puckett -- "The television audience cannot be expected to bear too much reality" : The family and reality TV / Su Holmes -- Reality TV and the American family / Leigh H. Edwards -- Shopping, makeovers, and nationhood : reality TV and women's programming in Canada / Sarah A. Matheson -- Babes in bonanzaland : Kid nation, commodification, and the death of play / Debbie Clare Olson -- "A storybook every day" : fiction and history in the Channel 4/PBS house series / Julie Anne Taddeo and Ken Dvorak -- "What about giving us a real version of Australian history?" : identity, ethics, and historical understanding in reality history TV / Michelle Arrow -- Living history in documentary practice : the making of The colony / Aurora Scheelings. |
| Subject |
Reality television programs -- History and criticism.
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Reality television programs -- Social aspects.
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| Added Author |
Taddeo, Julie Anne.
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Dvorak, Ken, 1950-
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| ISBN |
9780813133881 (paperback : alk. paper) |
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0813133882 (paperback : alk. paper) |
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9780813125534 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0813125537 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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