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Reality TV: remaking television culture
Susan Murray and Laurie Ouellette-
Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page ix)
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Introduction (Laurie Ouellette and Susan Murray, page 1)
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PART 1 GENRE
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1 "Stanley Milgram, Allen Funt and Me": Postwar Social Science and the "First Wave" of Reality TV (Anna McCarthy, page 23)
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2 Performing the Real: Documentary Diversions (with Afterword) (John Corner, page 44)
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3 "I Think We Need a New Name for It": The Meeting of Documentary and Reality TV (Susan Murray, page 65)
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4 Teaching Us to Fake It: The Ritualized Norms of Television's "Reality" Games (Nick Couldry, page 82)
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5 Extraordinarily Ordinary: The Osbournes as "An American Family" (Derek Kompare, page 100)
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PART II INDUSTRY
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6 The Political Economic Origins of Reali-TV (Chad Raphael, page 123)
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7 Television 2.0: The Business of American Television in Transition (Ted Magder, page 141)
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8 Hoaxing the "Real": On the Metanarrative of Reality Television (Alison Hearn, page 165)
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9 Global TV Realities: International Markets, Geopolitics, and the Transcultural Contexts of Reality TV (John McMurria, page 179)
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PART III CULTURE AND POWER
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10 Country Hicks and Urban Cliques: Mediating Race, Reality, and Libearlism on MTV's The Real World (Jon Kraszewski, page 205)
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11 "Take Responsibility for Yourself": Judge Judy and the Neoliberal Citizen (Laurie Ouellette, page 223)
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12 Belabored Reality: Making It Work on The Simple Life and Project Runway (Heather Hendershot, page 243)
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13 Cinderella Burps: Gender, Performativity, and the Dating Show (Johathan Gray, page 260)
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14 The Comedic Treatment of Reality: Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, Fat Actress, and The Comeback (Heather Osborne-Thompson, page 278)
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PART IV INTERACTIVITY
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15 Melancholy, Merit, and Merchandise: The Postwar Audience Participation Show (Amber Watts, page 301)
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16 Visceral Literacy: Reality TV, Savvy Viewers, and Auto-Spies (mark Andrejevic, page 321)
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17 Buying into American Idol: How We Are Being Sold on Reality Television (Henry Jenkins, page 343)
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About the Contributors (page 363)
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Index (page 367)
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Published: c2009
Publisher: New York University Press
- 9780814757338 (hardcover)
- 9780814757345 (paper)