Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1   Reality debates

2   Real lives, documentary approaches

3   Just being themsleves: from docudrama to new observational documentary

4   Personalising the documentary: from video diary to Errol Morris

5   Therapeutic culture: narcissism and self-revelation

6   Trauma as popular cultural script: from talk show to lifestyle programming

7   Video justice: reality crime television

8   Man in a glass box

Conclusion: ‘Reach for the stars’: celebrity, social mobility and the future of reality TV

Notes

Bibliography

Index