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The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV
Seal Press
November 2010
On Sale: October 26, 2010
300 pages ISBN: 1580052657 EAN: 9781580052658 Paperback
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Non-Fiction
Nearly every night on every major network, “unscripted” (but
carefully crafted) “reality” TV shows routinely glorify
retrograde stereotypes that most people would assume got
left behind 35 years ago. In Reality Bites Back, media
critic Jennifer L. Pozner aims a critical, analytical lens
at a trend most people dismiss as harmless fluff. She
deconstructs reality TV’s twisted fairytales to demonstrate
that far from being simple “guilty pleasures,” these
programs are actually guilty of fomenting gender-war
ideology and significantly affecting the intellectual and
political development of this generation’s young viewers.
She lays out the cultural biases promoted by reality TV
about gender, race, class, sexuality, and consumerism, and
explores how those biases shape and reflect our cultural
perceptions of who we are, what we’re valued for, and what
we should view as “our place” in society. Smart and
informative, Reality Bites Back arms readers with the tools
they need to understand and challenge the stereotypes
reality TV reinforces and, ultimately, to demand
accountability from the corporations responsible for this
contemporary cultural attack on three decades of feminist
progress.
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