Better Living Through Reality TV: Television and Post-welfare Citizenship

by Laurie Ouellette (Author), Laurie Ouellette (Author), James Hay (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2008

  $103.45

  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.