Reality bites back
Subtitle: the troubling truth about guilty pleasure tv
By: by Jennifer L. Pozner.
Publisher: Seal Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781580052658
Subjects: Reality television programs -- Social aspects; Reality television programs -- Political aspects; Women on television; Sex role on television; Minorities on television
Table of contents: title: Introduction : understanding project brainwash; title: Unraveling reality tv's twisted fairy tales; title: Get comfortable with my flaw finder : women's bodies as women's worth; title: Bitches and morons and skanks, oh my! what reality tv teaches us about women; title: This is not my beautiful house! class anxiety, hyperconsumerism, and mockery of the poor; title: Erasing ethnicity, encoding bigotry : race, pre- and post-flavor of love; title: Ghetto bitches, china dolls and cha cha divas : race, beauty, and the tyranny of Tyra Banks; title: Beautiful corpses, abusive princes : violence against women as glamorous, romantic reality; title: "I would be a servant to him"; title: The world according to Covergirl : advertiser ideology goes 3D; title: Fun with media literacy; title: What are you going to do? how you can transform the media-starting today.