{"id":1959,"date":"2009-10-26T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2012-04-24T09:46:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T13:46:17","slug":"in-the-news-reality-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/in-the-news-reality-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News: Reality TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/strong>Week of October 26, 2009<\/strong>
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News Item: <\/strong>Fort Collins, Colorado – A six-year-old boy, his parents, and their homemade balloon recently made headlines after it was reported that the balloon floated away with the boy trapped inside its chamber. Not surprisingly, “Balloon Boy” received widespread media attention. Local law enforcement officials eventually declared the incident a hoax and said the family concocted the elaborate plan in order to achieve reality TV stardom. A popular genre among television viewers, reality shows often garner high Nielsen ratings. Why are they popular among television viewers? What is their allure? Pick up one of these books and see what the academics have to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Arresting Images: Crime and Policing in Front of the Television Camera<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Aaron Doyle. University of Toronto Press, 2003
\nCall Number: HM1206 .D69 2003 (At Jupiter)<\/p>\n

Better Living through Reality TV: Television and Post-Welfare Citizenship<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Laurie Ouellette and James Hay. Blackwell Pub., 2008
\nCall Number: PN1992.8 .R43 O84 2008<\/p>\n

Big Brother: Reality TV in the Twenty-First Century<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Jonathan Bignell. Palgrave MacMillan, 2005
\nCall Number: PN1992.8 .R43 B54 2005<\/p>\n

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Big Brother International: Formats, Critics and Publics<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited by Ernest Mathijs and Janet Jones. Wallflower Press, 2004
\nCall Number: PN1992.77 .B49 B49 2004<\/p>\n

Big Bother: Why Did That Reality-TV Show Become Such a Phenomenon?<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Toni Johnson-Woods. University of Queensland Press, 2002
\nCall Number: PN1992.77 .B49 J64 2002<\/p>\n

Discipline and Liberty: Television and Governance<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Gareth Palmer. Manchester University Press, 2003
\nCall Number: PN1992.8 .R43 P35 2003<\/p>\n

Documenting Gay Men: Identity and Performance in Reality Television and Documentary Film<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Christopher Pullen. McFarland, 2007
\nCall Number: HQ76.2 .U5 P85 2007<\/p>\n

Entertaining Crime: Television Reality Programs<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited by Mark Fishman and Gray Cavender. Aldine de Gruyter, 1998
\nCall Number: PN1992.8 .R43 E58 1998<\/p>\n

Freakshow: First Person Media and Factual Television<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Jon Dovey. Pluto Press, 2000
\nCall Number: PN1992.8 .R43 D68 2000 (Also available online via NetLibrary)<\/p>\n

How Real Is Reality TV?: Essays on Representation and Truth<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited by David S. Escoffery. McFarland & Co., 2006
\nCall Number: PN1992.8 .R43 H69 2006<\/p>\n

Makeover Television: Realities Remodelled<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited by Dana Heller. I. B. Tauris, 2007
\nCall Number: PN1992.8 .R43 M35 2007<\/p>\n

Reality Check: The Business and Art of Producing Reality TV<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Michael Essany. Focal Press\/Elsevier, 2008
\nCall Number: PN1992.8 .R43 E87 2008<\/p>\n

Reality Squared: Televisual Discourse on the Real<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited by James Friedman. Rutgers University Press, 2002
\nCall Number: PN1992.8 .R4 R43 2002<\/p>\n

Reality Television<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Richard M. Huff. Praeger Publishers, 2006
\nCall Number: PN1992.8 .R43 H84 2006<\/p>\n

Reality TV: Audiences and Popular Factual Television<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Annette Hill. Routledge, 2005
\nCall Number: PN1992.8 .R43 H55 2005 (Also available online via NetLibrary)<\/p>\n

Reality TV: Realism and Revelation<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn. Wallflower, 2005
\nCall Number: PN1992.8 .R43 B57 2004<\/p>\n

Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited by Susan Murray and Laurie Ouellette. New York University Press, 2004
\nCall Number: PN1992.8 .R43 R45 2004<\/p>\n

Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Mark Andrejevic. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003
\nCall Number: PN1992.8 .R43 A53 2003<\/p>\n

Shooting People: Adventures in Reality TV<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Sam Brenton and Reuben Cohen. Verso, 2003
\nCall Number: PN1992.8 R43 B74 2003<\/p>\n

So, You Wannabe on Reality TV<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Jack Benza. Allenworth Press, 2005
\nCall Number: Available online via NetLibrary<\/p>\n

The Spectacle of the Real: From Hollywood to “Reality” TV and Beyond<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited by Geoff King. Intellect, 2005
\nCall Number: PN1995 .S623 2005<\/p>\n

Staging the Real: Factual TV Programming in the Age of <\/em>Big Brother<\/strong>
\nBy Richard Kilborn. Manchester University Press, 2003
\nCall Number: PN1992.8 .R43 K55 2003<\/p>\n

Survivor Lessons: Essays on Communication and Reality Television<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited by Matthew J. Smith and Andrew F. Wood. McFarland & Company, Inc., 2003
\nCall Number: PN1992.8 .R43 S87 2003<\/p>\n

Tabloid Culture: Trash Taste, Popular Power, and the Transformation of American Television<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Kevin Glynn. Duke University Press, 2000
\nCall Number: PN1992.8 .R43 G59 2000<\/p>\n

The Truman Show<\/em> <\/strong>(DVD)
\nDirected by Peter Weir. Paramount, 1999
\nCall Number: PN1997 .T7242 1999 (At Jupiter)<\/p>\n

Understanding Reality Television<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited by Su Holmes and Deborah Jermyn. Routledge 2004
\nCall Number: PN1992.8 .R43 U53 2004<\/p>\n

Un-Resistive Reproduction?: Medical Hegemony, Pregnancy, and Reality Television<\/em>– <\/strong>FAU M.A. Thesis
\n<\/em>By Serena R. Bruno. Florida Atlantic University, 2005
\nCall Number: NX001. B786 2005 (Also available online)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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