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Index
Cover page
Title Page
Copyright page
Contents
Film History
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Reality TV as Social Experiment
Citizen Funt: Surveillance as Cold War Entertainment
From Social Experiment to Postmodern Joke: Big Brother and the Progressive Construction of Celebrity
From the Kitchen to 10 Downing Street: Jamie’s School Dinners and the Politics of Reality Cooking
The Patriotic American Is a Thin American: Fatness and National Identity in The Biggest Loser
Part II: Class, Gender, and Reimaging of Family Life
Disillusionment, Divorce, and the Destruction of the American Dream: An American Family and the Rise of Reality TV
“The television audience cannot be expected to bear too much reality”: The Family and Reality TV
Reality TV and the American Family
Shopping, Makeovers, and Nationhood: Reality TV and Women's Programming in Canada
Babes in BonanzaLand: Kid Nation, Commodifi cation, and the Death of Play
Part III: Reality TV and the Living History Experiment
“A Storybook Every Day”: Fiction and History in the Channel 4/PBS House Series
“What about giving us a real version of Australian history?”: Identity, Ethics, and Historical Understanding in Reality History TV
Living History in Documentary Practice: The Making of The Colony
Contributors
Index
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