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Reality bites back : the troubling truth about guilty pleasure TV / Jennifer L. Pozner

Author
Pozner, Jennifer L.
Published
Berkeley, Calif. : Seal Press, [2010]
Copyright Date
©2010
Physical Description
386 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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Contents
Introduction : understanding project brainwash -- Unraveling reality tv's twisted fairy tales -- Get comfortable with my flaw finder : women's bodies as women's worth -- Bitches and morons and skanks, oh my! what reality tv teaches us about women -- This is not my beautiful house! class anxiety, hyperconsumerism, and mockery of the poor -- Erasing ethnicity, encoding bigotry : race, pre- and post-flavor of love -- Ghetto bitches, china dolls and cha cha divas : race, beauty, and the tyranny of Tyra Banks -- Beautiful corpses, abusive princes : violence against women as glamorous, romantic reality -- "I would be a servant to him" -- The world according to Covergirl : advertiser ideology goes 3D -- Fun with media literacy -- What are you going to do? how you can transform the media-starting today.
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ISBN
9781580052658 (pbk.)
1580052657 (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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