| Description |
x, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / James Friedman -- Acting Live: TV Performance, Intimacy, and Immediacy (1945-1955) / Rhona J. Berenstein -- "Johnny Yuma Was a Rebel; He Roamed through the West" - Television, Race, and the "Real" West / Alan Nadel -- Daytime Politics: Kefauver, McCarthy, and the American Housewife / Kristen Hatch -- "Happy New Year and Auld Lang Syne": On Televisual Montage and Historical Consciousness / Vivian Sobchack -- Reality TV in the Digital Era: A Paradox in Visual Culture? / Arild Fetveit -- Attraction to Distraction: Live Television and the Public Sphere / James Friedman -- Cyborgs in Cyberspace: White Pride, Pedophilic Pornography, and Donna Haraway's Manifesto / Daniel Bernardi -- Television Vectors and the Making of a Media Event: The Helicopter, the Freeway Chase, and National Memory / Marita Sturken -- Tomorrow Will Be ... Risky and Disciplined / Toby Miller -- Neighbours from Hell: Producing Incivilities / Gareth Palmer -- The Court of Last Resort: Making Race, Crime, and Nation on America's Most Wanted / Margaret Derosia -- Prime-Time Fiction Theorizes the Docu-Real / John Caldwell -- Uncertainty, Conspiracy, Abduction / Jodi Dean -- Television, Therapy, and the Social Subject; or, The TV Therapy Machine / Mimi White |
| Summary |
Reality-based television has come to play a major role in both production decisions and network strategy. This text examines the representation of reality within the televisual viewing frame, as well as the exponential growth of these programmes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Reality television programs -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Reality television programs -- United States.
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Realism on television.
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| Author |
Friedman, James, 1958-
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| LC no. |
2001031787 |
| ISBN |
0813529883 alkaline paper |
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0813529891 paperback alkaline paper |
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