 Better Living through Reality TV: Television and Post-Welfare Citizenship
ISBN: 978-1-4051-3440-8
Hardcover
264 pages
February 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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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 freedom, enterprise, and personal responsibility
* 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
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