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The tube has spoken [print + electronic resource] : reality TV and history / edited by Julie Anne Taddeo and Ken Dvorak.

Contributor(s): Series: Film & historyPublication details: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2009.Description: x, 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780813125534 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.45/6 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1992.8.R43 T83 2009
Online resources:
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 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks PN1992.8 .R43 T83 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001114874

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 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.

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