{"product_id":"9780822368229","title":"Project Reality TV","description":"\u003cbr\u003eThis special issue examines reality television, analyzing how it produces certain ways of seeing, knowing, feeling, and being for viewers and society. The essays explore common reality television themes—health, housewives, “hot bodies,” and “hoochie mamas”—and programs including \u003ci\u003eJersey Shore\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eReal Housewives\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIntervention\u003c\/i\u003e in relation to gender, sexuality, race, and class. The contributors consider reality television’s industrial and affective economies, its constructions of celebrity and sociality, its ethics and epistemologies, and its implications for viewers and our culture. Unpacking a significant media phenomenon of the era, this issue allows readers to better understand and productively engage with today’s mediatized culture.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLynne Joyrich\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eRe-viewing Reception: Television, Gender, and Postmodern Culture\u003c\/i\u003e. She has been a member of the Camera Obscura editorial collective since 1996. \u003cb\u003eMisha Kavka\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Media, Film, and Television at the University of Auckland. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eReality TV\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eReality Television, Affect and Intimacy: Reality Matters\u003c\/i\u003e and is the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eFeminist Consequences: Theory for the New Century\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eBrenda R. Weber\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at Indiana University. Her books include \u003ci\u003eMakeover TV: Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eReality Gendervision: Sexuality and Gender on Transatlantic Reality TV\u003c\/i\u003e, both also published by Duke University Press, and \u003ci\u003eWomen and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century: The Transatlantic Production of Fame and Gender\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors: Pier Dominguez, Jane Feuer, Hunter Hargraves, Jennifer Jones, Lynne Joyrich, Misha Kavka, Michael Litwack, Kristen J. Warner, Brenda R. Weber\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030847930608,"sku":"9780822368229","price":8.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780822368229_p0.jpg?v=1763750332","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780822368229","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}