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1) Reality TV
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English
Description
From early first-wave programs such as Candid Camera, An American Family, and The Real World to the shows on our television screens and portable devices today, reality television consistently takes us to cities-such as New York, Los Angeles, and Boston-to imagine the place of urbanity in American culture and society. Jon Kraszewski offers the first extended account of this phenomenon, as he makes the politics of urban space the center of his history...
2) Lifestyle TV
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Language
English
Description
'Lifestyle TV' analyses a burgeoning array of lifestyle formats on network and cable channels, from how-to and advice programmes to hybrid reality entertainment built around the cultivation of the self as project, the ethics of everyday life, the mediation of style and taste, the regulation of health and the body, and the performance of identity and 'difference'. The author situates these formats historically, arguing that the lifestyling of television...
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