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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
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Non-Fiction
Nearly every night on every major network, βunscriptedβ (but carefully crafted) βrealityβ 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 TVβs twisted fairytales to demonstrate that far from being simple βguilty pleasures,β these programs are actually guilty of fomenting gender-war ideology and significantly affecting the intellectual and political development of this generationβs 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 weβre valued for, and what we should view as βour placeβ 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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