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Reality TV: remaking television culture

Susan Murray and Laurie Ouellette c2009 © New York University Press
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  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
ISBN(s)
  • 9780814757338 (hardcover)
  • 9780814757345 (paper)
Subject
  • Film & Media Studies
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Introduction (Laurie Ouellette and Susan Murray, page 1)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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
    • 15 Melancholy, Merit, and Merchandise: The Postwar Audience Participation Show (Amber Watts, page 301)
    • 16 Visceral Literacy: Reality TV, Savvy Viewers, and Auto-Spies (mark Andrejevic, page 321)
    • 17 Buying into American Idol: How We Are Being Sold on Reality Television (Henry Jenkins, page 343)
  • About the Contributors (page 363)
  • Index (page 367)
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