Survivor lessons
Subtitle: essays on communication and reality television
By: edited by Matthew J. Smith and Andrew F. Wood.
Contributors: Smith, Matthew J., 1971-; Wood, Andrew F.
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Reality television programs -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I. Lessons about reality ; 1. Individual and cultural identity in the world of reality television / Terri Toles Patkin; title: 2. Contrived television reality: Survivor as a pseudo-event / April L. Roth ; 3. Who owns your personality: reality television and publicity rights / Debora Halbert ; 4. From Dragnet to Survivor: historical and cultural perspectives on reality television / Sean Baker; title: II. Lessons about playing social games ; 5. Reel life: the social geometry of reality shows / Ellis Godard ; 6. The nonverbal communication of trustworthiness: a necessary Survivor skill / R. Thomas Boone ; 7. Metaphors of survival: a textual analysis of the decision-making strategies of the Survivor contestants /  Kathleen M. Propp ; 8. Survivor, social choice, and the impediments to political rationality: reality TV as social science experiment / Ed Wingenbach; title: III. Lessons beyond the lens ; 9. Mutual metaphors of Survivor and office politics: images of work in popular survivor criticism / Jennifer Thackaberry ; 10. Self-help for savages: the other survivor, primitivism, and the construction of American identity / Steven S. Vrooman ; 11. The communication ethics of Survivor / Marilyn Fuss-Reineck ; 12. Traveling the terrain of screened realities: our reality, our television / Marcy R. Chvasta and Deanna L. Fassett.