The tube has spoken : reality TV & history

Publication/Creation:

Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2010]

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

The tube has spoken : reality TV & history / edited by Julie Anne Taddeo and Ken Dvorak

Series Titles:

Film & history
Film & history (Lexington, Ky.)

Related/Included Titles:

Introduction /
Reality TV as social experiment. Citizen Funt : surveillance as Cold War entertainment /
From social experiment to postmodern jokes : Big brother and the progressive construction of celebrity /
From the kitchen to 10 Downing Street : Jamie's school dinners and the politics of reality cooking /
The patriotic American is a thin American : fatness and national identity in The biggest loser /
Class, gender, and reimaging of family life. Disillusionment, divorce, and the destruction of the American dream : An American family and the rise of reality TV /
"The television audience cannot be expected to bear too much reality" : The family and reality TV /
Reality TV and the American family /
Shopping, makeovers, and nationhood : reality TV and women's programming in Canada /
Babes in bonanzaland : Kid nation, commodification, and the death of play /
Reality TV and the living history experiment. "A storybook every day" : fiction and history in the Channel 4/PBS house series /
"What about giving us a real version of Australian history?" : identity, ethics, and historical understanding in reality history TV /
Living history in documentary practice : the making of The colony /

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Additional Author/Creators:

Taddeo, Julie Anne
Dvorak, Ken, 1950-

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Reality television programs--History and criticism
Reality television programs--Social aspects

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Julie Anne Taddeo and Ken Dvorak -- Reality TV as social experiment. Citizen Funt : surveillance as Cold War entertainment / Fred Nadis -- From social experiment to postmodern jokes : Big brother and the progressive construction of celebrity / Lee Barron -- From the kitchen to 10 Downing Street : Jamie's school dinners and the politics of reality cooking / James Leggott and Tobias Hochscherf -- The patriotic American is a thin American : fatness and national identity in The biggest loser / Cassandra L. Jones -- Class, gender, and reimaging of family life. Disillusionment, divorce, and the destruction of the American dream : An American family and the rise of reality TV / Laurie Rupert and Sayanti Ganguly Puckett -- "The television audience cannot be expected to bear too much reality" : The family and reality TV / Su Holmes -- Reality TV and the American family / Leigh H. Edwards -- Shopping, makeovers, and nationhood : reality TV and women's programming in Canada / Sarah A. Matheson -- Babes in bonanzaland : Kid nation, commodification, and the death of play / Debbie Clare Olson -- Reality TV and the living history experiment. "A storybook every day" : fiction and history in the Channel 4/PBS house series / Julie Anne Taddeo and Ken Dvorak -- "What about giving us a real version of Australian history?" : identity, ethics, and historical understanding in reality history TV / Michelle Arrow -- Living history in documentary practice : the making of The colony / Aurora Scheelings.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

x, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

990025160080302486

ISBN:

0813125537 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780813125534 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC Number:

318875071

Barcode:

010002476875