The tube has spoken : reality TV & history / edited by Julie Anne Taddeo and Ken Dvorak.
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2010]
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| Series: | Film & history (Lexington, Ky.).
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Julie Anne Taddeo and Ken Dvorak
- Reality TV as social experiment
- 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
- Class, gender, and reimaging of family life-- 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
- Reality TV and the living history experiment-- "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.