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Index
Title Page
Praise
Dedication
Introduction
Chapter One - Unraveling Reality TV’s Twisted Fairytales
Princes for Hire, Princesses for Sale: Constructing the Fairytale
Mistaking the Trappings for Love
Pushing Culturally Ingrained Buttons
Exclusivity, Conformity, or Banishment
Humiliation: The Flip Side of the Fairytale
So Much for Happily Ever After
Chapter Two - Get Comfortable with My Flaw Finder
Beauty in Commercial Media
Pretty Princesses, Conditional Love
Just More of the Same
Modeling Beauty: Cutting Women Down to Size
Toccara’s Story: When Weight and Ethnicity Meet on Top Model
“Pro-ana” Goes Prime Time
Beauty Qualifies Me
“The Beauty Is Worth the Pain”
Chapter Three - Bitches and Morons and Skanks, Oh My!
“I Know Better Than to Trust Women”
No One Wants to See a Brainiac in a Bikini: Women as Stupid
Weak Workers, Wicked Wives, Mediocre Moms: Women as Incompetent
I Ain’t Sayin’ She’s a Gold Digger . . .
The Bottom Line about Reality TV’s “Bitches,” “Morons,” and “Incompetent Skanks”
Chapter Four - This Is Not My Beautiful House!
Mocking the Poor
The Ideology of Conspicuous Consumption
Recession? What Recession?
Commercial Reeducation: Learning “Fashion Math”
STAGE 1: INSTRUCTION
STAGE 2: REBELLION (TAMING OF)
STAGE 3: ASSIMILATION
Charity, Not Change
House of Cards
Chapter Five - Erasing Ethnicity, Encoding Bigotry
The Genesis of Reality TV Racism
I. Before Flavor of Love (BF): Marginalization, Tokenism, and Typecasting
II. After Flavor of Love (AF): Modern-Day Minstrel Shows
Chapter Six - Ghetto Bitches, China Dolls, and Cha Cha Divas
China Dolls, Dragon Ladies, and Spicy Latinas
Entitled Divas and Ghetto Bitches
Uppity Black Girls Need Humble Pie
Curious George, Work It Out!
Black Models Gone “Wild”
Tyra Banks: Fashion Victim Turned Fashion Perpetrator
Chapter Seven - Beautiful Corpses, Abusive Princes
These Are the “Most Eligible Bachelors in America”?
Liposuction and Silicone as Antiviolence Building Blocks
“Slap-Happy” Plot Devices
“House of Pain”
“Death Becomes You, Young Lady”
Chapter Eight - “I Would Be a Servant to Him”
“Equal Society? I’m Sick of It!”
“I’m Going to Die Alone.”
Life’s a Bitch and Then You Marry One
Sex: It’s Only Okay if She Doesn’t Really Want It
The Gender Binary: Reality TV’s Definition of “Normal”
Twenty-First Century Backlash: Your Handy-Dandy Annotated Guide
Reading Between the Lines
Chapter Nine - The World According to CoverGirl
The Reality of Media Economics
“A Commercial Vehicle as Much as a TV Drama”
“It’s Not at All about Making Better Television”
Creating the Illusion of Public Demand
Ad Creep Just Gets Creepier . . .
Chapter Ten - Fun with Media Literacy!
Backlash Bingo: Media Literacy Meets MST3K
Reality TV Drinking Games
Media Literacy: Fun for the Whole Family
Critical Thinking: The Building Blocks of Media Literacy
Make Your Own Media
Raise Your Voice, Change the Debate
Chapter Eleven - What Are You Going to Do?
Regulate Product Placement and Deceptive Marketing
HERE ARE SIX WAYS YOU CAN TAKE ACTION:
Many Ways to Bite Back
Resource Guide
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Selected Titles from Seal Press
Copyright Page
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