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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 trends
  • Draws on a range of examples from The Apprentice and American Idol to Extreme Makeover and Wife Swap
  • Argues that reality television teaches viewers to monitor, motivate, improve, transform and protect themselves in the name of freedom, enterprise, and personal responsibility

Better Living through Reality TV: Television and Post-Welfare Citizenship

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Hardback by Laurie Ouellette , James 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... Read more

    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 08/01/2008
    ISBN13: 9781405134408, 978-1405134408
    ISBN10: 1405134402

    Number of Pages: 264

    Description

    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 trends
    • Draws on a range of examples from The Apprentice and American Idol to Extreme Makeover and Wife Swap
    • Argues 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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