Better Living through Reality TV

Television and Post-Welfare Citizenship

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

Av Laurie Ouellette, James Hay, Laurie (University of Minnesota) Ouellette, James (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Hay, Hay

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Combining cutting-edge theories of culture and government with programming examples—including Todd TV, Survivor, and American Idol—Better Living through Reality TV moves beyond the established concerns of political economy and cultural studies to conceptualize television's evolving role in the contemporary period. A major textbook on the impact of reality and lifestyle television on today’s programming, and on broader social, cultural and political trendsDraws on a range of examples from The Apprentice and American Idol to Extreme Makeover and Wife SwapArgues that reality television teaches viewers to monitor, motivate, improve, transform and protect themselves in the name of freedom, enterprise, and personal responsibility

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Utgivningsdatum2008-01-08
Mått153 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt381 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor264
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9781405134415

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Laurie Ouellette is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is co-editor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture and author of Viewers Like You? How Public TV Failed the People.James Hay is an Associate Professor in the College of Communication at the University of Illinois--Champaign-Urbana. He is a co-editor of The Audience and Its Landscape.