Inside reality TV : producing race, gender, and sexuality on "Big brother" / Ragan Fox.

Author/creator Fox, Ragan author.
Format Electronic
PublicationNew York : Routledge, 2018.
Description1 online resource (140 pages)
Supplemental ContentProQuest Ebook Central
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Contents Investigating the reality TV paradox -- "Just be yourself", and other casting fairytales -- "Fagan: awesome representative of the gay community" -- Interlude -- Performatively spectating houseguests of color -- Life after Big brother.
Summary In the summer of 2010, Ragan Fox was one of twelve people selected to participate in the twelfth season of CBS's reality program Big Brother. Offering a rare, autobiographical, and behind-the-scenes peek behind Big Brother's theatrical curtain, Fox provides a scholarly account of the show's casting procedures, secret soundstage interactions, and viewer involvement, while investigating how the program's producers, fans, and players theatrically render identities of racial and sexual minorities. Using autoethnography, textual analysis, and spectator commentary as research, Inside Reality TVreflects on and critiques how identity is constructed on reality television, and the various ways in which people from historically oppressed groups are depicted in mass media.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Fox, Ragan. Inside reality TV. New York : Routledge, 2018 9781138065567
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Genre/formBiographies.
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