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| ISBN: | 9780585482903
058548290X
0742527476 (cloth : alk. paper)
0742527484 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780742527478
9780742527485
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-240) and index.
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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| Summary: | Drawing on cultural theory and interviews with fans, cast members, and producers, this book places the reality TV trend within a broader social context, tracing its relationship to the development of a digitally enhanced, surveillance-based interactive economy and to a savvy mistrust of mediated reality in general. Surveying several successful reality-TV formats, the book links the rehabilitation of 'Big Brother' to the increasingly important economic role played by the work of being watched. The author enlists critical social theory to examine how the appeal of 'the real' is deployed as a pervasive but false promise of democratization.
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| Other form: | Print version: Reality TV Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2004. 0742527476 (cloth : alk. paper)
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