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1 online resource (xiii, 380 pages) : illustrations |
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Trash talk: the gender politics of reality television / Brenda R. Weber -- The pleasures and perils in being seen -- The "pig", "the older woman" and the "catfight": -- Gender, celebrity, and controversy in a decade of British reality TV / Su Holmes and Deborah Jermyn -- Reality TV and the gendered politics of flaunting / Misha Kavka -- Keeping up with the aspirations: commercial family values and the Kardashian brand / Maria Pramaggiore and Diane Negra -- When America's queen of talk saved Britain's duchess of pork: finding Sarah, Oprah Winfrey, and the transatlantic politics of self-making / Brenda R. Weber -- Wrecked: programming celesbian reality / Dana Heller -- Citizenship, ethnicity, and (trans)national identity -- Abject femininity and compulsory masculinity on Jersey shore / Amanda Ann Klein -- Supersizing the family: nation, gender, and recession on reality TV / Rebecca Stephens -- "Get more action" on gladiatorial television: simulation and masculinity on deadliest warrior / Lindsay Steenberg -- Jade Goody's preemptive hagiography: neoliberal citizenship and reality TV celebrity / Kimberly Springer -- Mediated freak shows and cautionary tales it's not TV, it's birth control: reality TV and the "problem" of teenage pregnancy / Laurie Ouellette -- Intimating disaster: choices, women, and hoarding shows / Susan Lepselter -- Freaky five-year-olds and mental mommies: narratives of gender, race, and class in tlc's toddlers & tiaras / Kirsten Pike -- Legitimate targets: reality television and large people / Gareth Palmer -- Spectral men: femininity, race, and traumatic manhood in the RTV ghost-hunter genre / David Greven. |
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ISBN |
9780822376644 (electronic bk.) |
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0822376644 (electronic bk.) |
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9780822356691 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0822356694 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780822356820 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0822356821 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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