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This vibrant, accessible book provides an up-to-date synthesis of current patterns in and thinking about reality TV. Ranging across cutting-edge topics such as new media, commercialization, identity markers and politics, this illuminating study draws on an eye-popping array of programmes to argue that reality television is less a style than an ontology. Misha Kavka, The University of Auckland Taking reality television seriously as staged actuality, Deery presents a clear way to understand this phenomenon of the past twenty years through a seemingly inexhaustible knowledge of the programs and the scholarship on them. This is a great text for students and viewers alike. Vicki Myer, Tulane University

"""This vibrant, accessible book provides an up-to-date synthesis of current patterns in and thinking about reality TV. Ranging across cutting-edge topics such as new media, commercialization, identity markers and politics, this illuminating study draws on an eye-popping array of programmes to argue that reality television is less a style than an ontology."" Misha Kavka, The University of Auckland ""Taking reality television seriously as ""staged actuality,"" Deery presents a clear way to understand this phenomenon of the past twenty years through a seemingly inexhaustible knowledge of the programs and the scholarship on them. This is a great text for students and viewers alike."" Vicki Mayer, Tulane University"

Taking reality television seriously as staged actuality, Deery presents a clear way to understand this phenomenon of the past twenty years through a seemingly inexhaustible knowledge of the programs and the scholarship on them. This is a great text for students and viewers alike. Vicki Myer, Tulane University

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June Deery is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She has been a Faculty Fellow at the National Association of Television Program Executives and currently serves as her department’s Graduate Program Director.

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