| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
ix, 377 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"Stanley Milgram, Allen Funt, and me": postwar social science and the "first wave" of reality TV / Anna McCarthy -- Performing the real: documentary diversions (with afterword) / John Corner -- "I think we need a new name for it": the meeting of documentary and reality TV / Susan Murray -- Teaching us to fake it: the ritualized norms of television's "reality" games / Nick Couldry -- Extraordinarily ordinary: The Osbournes as "an American family" / Derek Kompare -- The political economic origins of reali-TV / Chad Raphael -- Television 2.0: the business of American television in transition / Ted Magder -- Hoaxing the 'real': on the metanarrative of reality television / Alison Hearn -- Global TV realities: international markets, geopolitics, and the transcultural contexts of reality TV / John McMurria -- Country hicks and urban cliques: mediating race, reality, and liberalism on MTV's The real world / Jon Kraszewski -- "Take responsibility for yourself": Judge Judy and the neoliberal citizen / Laurie Ouellette -- Belabored reality: making it work on The simple life and Project runway / Heather Hendershot -- Cinderella burps: gender, performativity, and the dating show / Jonathan Gray -- The comedic treatment of reality: Kathy Griffin: My life on the D-list, Fat actress, and The comeback / Heather Osborne-Thompson -- Melancholy, merit, and merchandise: the postwar audience participation show / Amber Watts -- Visceral literacy : reality TV, savvy viewers, and auto-spies / Mark Andrejevic -- Buying into American idol: how we are being sold on reality television / Henry Jenkins. |
| Subject |
Reality television programs -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Murray, Susan, 1967-
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Ouellette, Laurie.
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| ISBN |
0814757340 (pb : alk. paper) |
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9780814757338 (cl : alk. paper) |
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0814757332 (cl : alk. paper) |
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9780814757345 (pb : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000043342650 |
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NZ1 12904063 |
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