Living history in documentary practice : the making of The colony / Aurora Scheelings. Reality TV as social experiment. Citizen Funt : surveillance as Cold War entertainment / Fred Nadis -- From social experiment to postmodern jokes : Big brother and the progressive construction of celebrity / Lee Barron -- From the kitchen to 10 Downing Street : Jamie's school dinners and the politics of reality cooking / James Leggott and Tobias Hochscherf -- The patriotic American is a thin American : fatness and national identity in The biggest loser / Cassandra L. Jones -- Class, gender, and reimaging of family life. Disillusionment, divorce, and the destruction of the American dream : An American family and the rise of reality TV / Laurie Rupert and Sayanti Ganguly Puckett -- "The television audience cannot be expected to bear too much reality" : The family and reality TV / Su Holmes -- Reality TV and the American family / Leigh H. Edwards -- Shopping, makeovers, and nationhood : reality TV and women's programming in Canada / Sarah A. Matheson -- Babes in bonanzaland : Kid nation, commodification, and the death of play / Debbie Clare Olson -- Reality TV and the living history experiment. "A storybook every day" : fiction and history in the Channel 4/PBS house series / Julie Anne Taddeo and Ken Dvorak -- "What about giving us a real version of Australian history?" : identity, ethics, and historical understanding in reality history TV / Michelle Arrow -- Living history in documentary practice : the making of The colony / Aurora Scheelings.
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