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Inside reality TV : producing race, gender, and sexuality on Big brother / Ragan Fox.
Van Pelt Library PN1992.77.B495 F79 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fox, Ragan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Big brother (Television program : United States).
- Fox, Ragan.
- Sex role on television.
- Homosexuality on television.
- Television personalities--United States--Biography.
- Television personalities.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 140 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
- 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 TV reflects 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781138065567
- 1138065560
- 9781138065574
- 1138065579
- OCLC:
- 1030914303
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