Fooling with the Amish : Amish Mafia, Entertaining Fakery, and the Evolution of Reality TV /

"Amish Mafia was a fake reality TV show that aired on Discovery Channel from 2012 to 2015. This book examines the show's rhetorical techniques, audience reception, and cultural circumstances to address two general questions: How and why are people taken in by falsehoods in the media? What...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Eitzen, Dirk (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Amish Mafia (Television program)
Television viewers > Social aspects.
Reality television programs > Social aspects.
Gossip.
Deception.
Television viewers > Social aspects > United States.
Reality television programs > Social aspects > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"Amish Mafia was a fake reality TV show that aired on Discovery Channel from 2012 to 2015. This book examines the show's rhetorical techniques, audience reception, and cultural circumstances to address two general questions: How and why are people taken in by falsehoods in the media? What is it about the so-called reality of reality entertainments that appeals to and gratifies viewers? The book's ultimate answer to these questions, supported with many kinds of evidence, is that, in taking liberties with facts, Amish Mafia and other forms of entertaining fakery, including fake news, work very much like gossip"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (248 pages): illustrations.
ISBN:9781421444192

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