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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eitzen, Dirk (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Inquiring minds want to know
  • 2. The roots of reality entertainment
  • 3. A chronicle of contrivance
  • 4. The pleasure of being deceived (and its limits)
  • 5. Gossip and lies
  • 6. Rights and wrongs.

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