TY - BOOK AU - Taddeo,Julie Anne AU - Dvorak,Ken ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - The tube has spoken : reality TV and history T2 - Film & history SN - 9780813125534 (hardcover : alk. paper) AV - PN1992.8.R43 T83 2009 U1 - 791.45/6 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Lexington PB - The University Press of Kentucky KW - Reality television programs KW - History and criticism KW - Social aspects N1 - 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 UR - https://ezp.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/osterlin/Doc?id=10438028 ER -