The tube has spoken
Subtitle: reality TV and history
By: edited by Julie Anne Taddeo and Ken Dvorak.
Contributors: Taddeo, Julie Anne.; Dvorak, Ken, 1950-
Series: Film & history
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813125534
Subjects: Reality television programs -- History and criticism; Reality television programs -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Julie Anne Taddeo and Ken Dvorak; title: Reality TV as social experiment. Citizen Funt : surveillance as cold war entertainment / Fred Nadis; title: From social experiment to postmodern jokes : big brother and the progressive construction of celebrity / Lee Barron; title: From the kitchen to 10 Downing Street : Jamie's school dinners and reality cooking / James Leggott and Tobias Hochscherf; title: The patriotic American is a thin American : fatness and national identity in The biggest loser / Cassandra L. Jones; title: 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; title: "The television audience cannot be expected to bear too much reality" : the family and reality TV / Su Holmes; title: Reality TV and the American family / Leigh H. Edwards; title: Shopping, makeovers, and nationhood : reality TV and women's programming in Canada / Sarah A. Matheson; title: Babes in bonanzaland : kid nation, commodification, and the death of play / Debbie Clare Olson; title: 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; title: "What about giving us a real version of Australian history?" : identity, ethics, and historical understanding in reality history TV / Michelle Arrow; title: Living history in documentary practice : the making of The colony / Aurora Scheelings.