The tube has spoken : reality TV & history /

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]

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Other Authors: Taddeo, Julie Anne, Dvorak, Ken, 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2011.
Edition:Paperback ed.
Series:Film & history (Lexington, Ky.)
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505 0 0 |t Citizen Funt : surveillance as Cold War entertainment /  |r Fred Nadis --  |t From social experiment to postmodern jokes : Big brother and the progressive construction of celebrity /  |r Lee Barron --  |t From the kitchen to 10 Downing Street : Jamie's school dinners and the politics of reality cooking /  |r James Leggott and Tobias Hochscherf --  |t The patriotic American is a thin American : fatness and national identity in The biggest loser /  |r Cassandra L. Jones --  |t Disillusionment, divorce, and the destruction of the American dream : An American family and the rise of reality TV /  |r Laurie Rupert and Sayanti Ganguly Puckett --  |t "The television audience cannot be expected to bear too much reality" : The family and reality TV /  |r Su Holmes --  |t Reality TV and the American family /  |r Leigh H. Edwards --  |t Shopping, makeovers, and nationhood : reality TV and women's programming in Canada /  |r Sarah A. Matheson --  |t Babes in bonanzaland : Kid nation, commodification, and the death of play /  |r Debbie Clare Olson --  |t "A storybook every day" : fiction and history in the Channel 4/PBS house series /  |r Julie Anne Taddeo and Ken Dvorak --  |t "What about giving us a real version of Australian history?" : identity, ethics, and historical understanding in reality history TV /  |r Michelle Arrow --  |t Living history in documentary practice : the making of The colony /  |r Aurora Scheelings. 
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