Truth and consequences : game shows in fiction and film / Mike Miley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miley, Mike, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television game shows.

Television in motion pictures.

Television in literature.

Physical Description:

252 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019]

Summary:

"Although nearly every other television form or genre has undergone a massive critical and popular reassessment or resurgence in the past twenty years, the game show's reputation has remained both remarkably stagnant and remarkably low. Scholarship on game shows concerns itself primarily with the history and aesthetics of the form, and few works assess the influence the format has had on American society or how the aesthetics and rhythms of contemporary life model themselves on the aesthetics and rhythms of game shows. In Truth and Consequences: Game Shows in Fiction and Film, author Mike Miley seeks to broaden the conversation about game shows by studying how they are represented in fiction and film. Writers and filmmakers find the game show to be the ideal metaphor for life in a media-saturated era, from self-hood to love to family to state power. The book is divided into "rounds," each chapter looking at different themes that books and movies explore via the game show. By studying over two dozen works of fiction and film-bestsellers, blockbusters, disasters, modern legends, forgotten gems, award winners, self-published curios, and everything in between-Truth and Consequences argues that game shows offer a deeper understanding of modern-day America, a land of high-stakes spectacle where a game-show host can become president of the United States"-- Provided by publisher.

"A critical study on how the dynamics of game shows are impacting America's culture"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Trivial pursuit?

What's my line? Game shows and the quest for an authentic self

Love connection: the game show's erogenous zones

Family feud: the game-show families of Salinger, Wallace, and Anderson

Fear factor: game shows, state power, and death

Final jeopardy

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Miley, Mike, Truth and consequences

ISBN:

9781496825384

1496825381

9781496825391

149682539X

OCLC:

1099267453