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Title: BETTER LIVING THROUGH REALITY TV
TELEVISION AND POST-WELFARE CITIZENSHIP
By: James Hay, Laurie Ouellette
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 1405134410
ISBN 13: 9781405134415
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Publisher: JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD
Pub. date: 8 January, 2008
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.
Synopsis: 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
Publication: UK
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
Returns: Returnable
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