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Streamlined Title: True Story: Reality TV's Insights about Us
True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us, a sociological study of reality television, explores its rise as a culture-dominating medium and what the genre reveals about our attitudes toward race, gender, class, and sexuality. Authored by the sociologist and TV-lover Danielle J. Lindemann, this book takes a long, hard look in the "funhouse mirror" of the reality TV genre.
From the first episodes of The Real World to countless rose ceremonies to the White House, reality TV has not just remade our entertainment and cultural landscape, but it also uniquely reflects our everyday experiences and social topography back to us. Applying scholarly research, including studies of inequality, culture, and deviance, to specific shows, Lindemann layers sharp insights with social theory, humor, pop cultural references, and anecdotes from her own life to show us who we really are.
By taking reality TV seriously, True Story argues that we can better understand key institutions, such as families, schools, and prisons, as well as broad social constructs, such as gender, race, class, and sexuality. From The Bachelor to Real Housewives to COPS and more, reality programming unveils the major circuits of power that organize our lives and the extent to which our own realities are, in fact, socially constructed.
Whether we're watching conniving Survivor contestants or three-year-old beauty queens, these "guilty pleasures" underscore how conservative our society remains and how steadfastly we cling to our notions about who or what counts as legitimate or "real." At once an entertaining chronicle of reality TV obsession and a pioneering work of sociology, True Story holds up a mirror to our society: the reflection may not always be pretty, but we can't look away.
The book, named a Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 by Esquire, is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the deeper social and cultural implications of the reality TV phenomenon.
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| Attribute | Value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (February 15, 2022) | ||||
| language | English | ||||
| hardcover | 352 pages | ||||
| isbn_10 | 0374279020 | ||||
| isbn_13 | 978-0374279028 | ||||
| item_weight | 2.31 pounds | ||||
| dimensions | 6.32 x 1.34 x 8.34 inches | ||||
| best_sellers_rank | #482,517 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #278 in TV History & Criticism #288 in TV Shows #1,454 in Popular Culture in Social Sciences | ||||
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