Better living through reality TV : television and post-welfare citizenship / Laurie Ouellette and Ja...
Better living through reality TV : television and post-welfare citizenship / Laurie Ouellette and Ja...
Better living through reality TV : television and post-welfare citizenship / Laurie Ouellette and James Hay.
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Publisher
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
Date
2008.
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N791.456/33
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English
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Physical content
255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Charity TV: Privatizing Care, Mobilizing Compassion -- 2. TV Interventions: Personal Responsibility and Techniques of the Self -- 3. Makeover TV: Labors of Reinvention -- 4. TV and the Self-Defensive Citizen -- 5. TV's Constitutions of Citizenship -- 6. Playing TV's Democracy Game.
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Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2008.
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Summary
"Better Living through Reality TV asserts that reality television is a cultural technology through which we have come to monitor, motivate, improve, transform, and protect ourselves in the name of freedom, enterprise, and personal responsibility."--BOOK JACKET.
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Better living through reality TV : television and post-welfare citizenship / Laurie Ouellette and James Hay.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-244) and index.
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N791.456/33
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74VK3r5ND0XM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK3r5ND0XM
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ISBN
1405134410 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1405134402 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781405134408 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781405134415 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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791.456
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991023808509702626
