Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments (page ix)
- Introduction (Laurie Ouellette and Susan Murray, page 1)
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PART 1 GENRE
- 1 "Stanley Milgram, Allen Funt and Me": Postwar Social Science and the "First Wave" of Reality TV (Anna McCarthy, page 23)
- 2 Performing the Real: Documentary Diversions (with Afterword) (John Corner, page 44)
- 3 "I Think We Need a New Name for It": The Meeting of Documentary and Reality TV (Susan Murray, page 65)
- 4 Teaching Us to Fake It: The Ritualized Norms of Television's "Reality" Games (Nick Couldry, page 82)
- 5 Extraordinarily Ordinary: The Osbournes as "An American Family" (Derek Kompare, page 100)
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PART II INDUSTRY
- 6 The Political Economic Origins of Reali-TV (Chad Raphael, page 123)
- 7 Television 2.0: The Business of American Television in Transition (Ted Magder, page 141)
- 8 Hoaxing the "Real": On the Metanarrative of Reality Television (Alison Hearn, page 165)
- 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
- 10 Country Hicks and Urban Cliques: Mediating Race, Reality, and Libearlism on MTV's The Real World (Jon Kraszewski, page 205)
- 11 "Take Responsibility for Yourself": Judge Judy and the Neoliberal Citizen (Laurie Ouellette, page 223)
- 12 Belabored Reality: Making It Work on The Simple Life and Project Runway (Heather Hendershot, page 243)
- 13 Cinderella Burps: Gender, Performativity, and the Dating Show (Johathan Gray, page 260)
- 14 The Comedic Treatment of Reality: Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, Fat Actress, and The Comeback (Heather Osborne-Thompson, page 278)
- PART IV INTERACTIVITY
- About the Contributors (page 363)
- Index (page 367)