Introduction / Henry Jenkins. Buying into American idol : how we are being sold on reality television / "Stanley Milgram, Allen Funt, and me" : postwar social science and the "first wave" of reality TV / Anna McCarthy -- Performing the real : documentary diversions (with afterword) / John Corner -- "I think we need a new name for it" : the meeting of documentary and reality TV / Susan Murray -- Teaching us to fake it : the ritualized norms of television's "reality" games / Nick Couldry -- Extraordinarily ordinary : The Osbournes as "an American family" / Derek Kompare -- Industry. Political economic origins of reali TV / Chad Raphael -- Television 2.0 : the business of American television in transition / Ted Magder -- Hoaxing the 'real' : on the metanarrative of reality television / Alison Hearn -- Global TV realities : international markets, geopolitics, and the transcultural contexts of reality TV / John McMurria -- Culture and power. Country hicks and urban cliques : mediating race, reality, and liberalism on MTV's The real world / Jon Kraszewski -- "Take responsibility for yourself" : Judge Judy and the neoliberal citizen / Laurie Ouellette -- Belabored reality : making it work on The simple life and Project runway / Heather Hendershot -- Cinderella burps : gender, performativity, and the dating show / Jonathan Gray -- Comedic treatment of reality : Kathy Griffin : My life on the D-list, Fat actress, and The comeback / Heather Osborne-Thompson -- Interactivity. Melancholy, merit, and merchandise : the postwar audience participation show / Amber Watts -- Visceral literacy : reality TV, savvy viewers, and auto spies / Mark Andrejevic -- Buying into American idol : how we are being sold on reality television / Henry Jenkins.
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