The tube has spoken
Subtitle: reality TV & history
By: edited by Julie Anne Taddeo and Ken Dvorak
Series: Film & history; Film & history (Lexington, Ky.)
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780813125534
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 the politics of 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.