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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].
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2010].
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| Colección: | Film & history (Lexington, Ky.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.