Fooling with the Amish : Amish Mafia, Entertaining Fakery, and the Evolution of Reality TV / Dirk Eitzen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eitzen, Dirk, author.

Series:

Young Center books in Anabaptist & Pietist studies.

Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reality television programs--Social aspects--United States.

Reality television programs.

Reality television programs--United States.

Amish Mafia (Television program).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 239 pages) : illustration

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Amish Mafia was a fake reality TV show that aired on Discovery Channel from 2012 to 2015. This book examines the show's rhetorical techniques, audience reception, and cultural circumstances to address two general questions: How and why are people taken in by falsehoods in the media? What is it about the so-called reality of reality entertainments that appeals to and gratifies viewers? The book's ultimate answer to these questions, supported with many kinds of evidence, is that, in taking liberties with facts, Amish Mafia and other forms of entertaining fakery, including fake news, work very much like gossip"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Inquiring minds want to know

2. The roots of reality entertainment

3. A chronicle of contrivance

4. The pleasure of being deceived (and its limits)

5. Gossip and lies

6. Rights and wrongs.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Eitzen, Dirk Fooling with the Amish

ISBN:

9781421444192

OCLC:

1328132743