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Table of Contents Introduction: The Role of Representation in Reality Television 1 Part I: Representation and Reality: How "Real" is Reality TV? 1. "When Will I Be Famous?" Reappraising the Debate about Fame in Reality TV Su Holmes 7 2. The Psycho-Economy of Reality Television in the "Tabloid Decade" Bethany Ogdon 000 3. Training Camps of the Modular: Reality TV as a Form of Life Barry King 000 Part II: Representation and Audiences: How Do Audiences Decode/understand Reality TV? 4. Viewer Interpretations of Reality Television: How Real Is Survivor for Its Viewers Richard E. Crew 000 5. Marketing "Reality" to the World: Survivor, Post-Fordism, and Reality Television Chris Jordan 000 6. Domestication Incorporation: Cribs and The Osbournes as Narratives of Domestication David S. Escoffery 000 Part III: Representation and Gender: How Does Reality TV Represent Women? 7. How Women Really Are: Disturbing Parallels between Reality Television and 18th Century Fiction Elizabeth Johnston 000 8. Female Police Officers and Reality Television: Analyzing the Presentation of Police Work in Popular Culture Todd M. Callais and Melissa Szozda 000 9. The Cutting Room: Gendered American Dreams on Plastic Surgery TV Shana Heinricy 000 Part IV: Representation and Difference: How Does Reality TV Represent "the Other"? 10. Playing with Hooks: Neo-tribal Style, Commodification and Resistance Andrea Schuld-Ergil 000 11. "Sexual Racism" and Reality Television: Privileging the White Male Prerogative on MTV's The Real World: Philadelphia Elizabeth R. Schroeder 000 12. Racism and Reality TV: The Case of MTV's Road Rules Mark Andrejevic and Dean Colby 000 13. The Amazing Race: Discovering a True American Jordan Harvey 000 Part V: Representation and Power: How Does Reality TV Represent Politics? 14. Games of Sociality and Their Soft Seduction Wesley Metham 000 15. Democracy at Work? The Lessons of Donald Trump and The Apprentice Elizabeth Franko 000 16. Watching Yourself, Watching Others: Popular Representations of Panoptic Surveillance in Reality TV Programs Daniel Trottier 000 About the Contributors 000 Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Reality television programs.
Reality television programs -- Social aspects.