 Better Living through Reality TV: Television and Post-Welfare Citizenship
ISBN: 978-1-4051-3440-8
Hardcover
264 pages
February 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
US $99.95
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- 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
- Combines cutting-edge theories of culture and government with a dazzling and ever-proliferating collection of reality programming examples
- Moves beyond the established concerns of political economy and cultural studies to capture television’s evolving role in the modern world
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