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True Story - What Reality TV Says about Us (Paperback)
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True Story - What Reality TV Says about Us (Paperback)
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Named a Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 by Esquire A sociological
study of reality TV that explores its rise as a culture-dominating
medium--and what the genre reveals about our attitudes toward race,
gender, class, and sexuality. What do we see when we watch reality
television? In True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us, the
sociologist and TV lover Danielle J. Lindemann takes a long, hard
look in the "funhouse mirror" of this genre, from countless rose
ceremonies on The Bachelor to the White House and more (so much
more!). Beginning with the first episodes of The Real World,
reality TV has not only remade our entertainment and cultural
landscape--it also uniquely refracts our everyday experiences and
social topography. By taking reality TV seriously, we can better
understand key institutions (such as families, schools, and
prisons) and broad social categories (such as gender, race, class,
and sexuality). These shows have the ability to unveil the major
circuits of power that organize our lives and the extent to which
our own realities are, in fact, socially constructed. Whether we're
watching conniving Survivor contestants or three-year-old beauty
queens, these "guilty pleasures" underscore how conservative our
society remains, and how steadfastly we cling to our notions about
what counts as legitimate or "real." At once an entertaining
chronicle of reality TV obsession and a pioneering work of
sociology, True Story reflects our society back to us: what we see
in the looking glass may not always be pretty, but we can't stop
watching.
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