Better Living through Reality TV: Television and Post-Welfare CitizenshipISBN: 978-1-4051-3440-8
Hardcover
264 pages
February 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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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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