Better Living Through Reality TV Television and Post-Welfare Citizenship

Name: Better Living Through Reality TV Television and Post-Welfare Citizenship
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ISBN: 9781405134415

ISBN-10: 1405134410

ISBN-13: 9781405134415

Edition: 2008

Authors: Laurie Ouellette, James Hay, James Hay, Laurie Ouellette

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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…

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List price: $40.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/29/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.374
Language: English

Laurie Ouellette is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is co-editor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture and author of Viewers Like You? How Public TV Failed the People.James Hay is an Associate Professor in the College of Communication at the University of Illinois--Champaign-Urbana. He is a co-editor of The Audience and Its Landscape.



List of Illustrations


Introduction



Charity TV: Privatizing Care, Mobilizing Compassion



TV Interventions: Personal Responsibility and Techniques of the Self



Makeover TV: Labors of Reinvention



TV and the Self-Defensive Citizen



TV's Constitutions of Citizenship



Playing TV's Democracy Game


Notes


Index