Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsForewordDeborah A. Carmichael Editor's Introduction Julie Anne Taddeo and Ken Dvorak Part I Reality TV as Social Experiment Citizen Funt: Surveillance as Cold War Entertainment Fred Nadis, Independent ScholarFrom Social Experiment to Postmodern Jokes: Big Brother and the Progressive Construction of CelebrityLee Baron, Northumbria University, UK From the Kitchen to 10 Downing Street: Jamie's School Dinners and Reality Cooking James Leggott, Northumbria University, UK Tobias Hochscherf, Northumbria, University, UK The Patriotic American is a Thin American: Fatness and National Identity in The Biggest LoserCassandra L. Jones, Bowling Green State University Part II Class, Gender and Reimaging of Family Life Disillusionment, Divorce, and the Destruction of the American Dream: An American Family (1973) and the rise of Reality TelevisionLaurie Rupert, Oklahoma State UniversitySayanti Ganguly, Oklahoma State University "The television audience cannot be expected to bear too much reality" The Family (BBC, 1974) and Reality TV Su Holmes, University of East Anglia Reality TV and the U.S. Family Leigh H. Edwards, Florida State University Shopping, Makeovers and Nationhood: Reality Television and Women's Programming in Canada Sarah A. Matheson, Brock University, Canada Babes in BonanzaLand: Kid Nation, Commodification and the Death of Play Debbie Clare Olson, Oklahoma State University Part III Reality TV and the Living History Experiment "A Storybook Everyday" : Fiction and History in the Channel 4/PBS House Series Julie Anne Taddeo, University of Maryland – College Park Ken Dvorak, Indiana Higher Education Telecommunications System Living History in Documentary Practice: The Making of The Colony Aurora Scheelings, Independent Filmmaker, Griffith University, Australia "What about giving us a real version of Australian History?" : Identity, Ethics and Historical Understanding in Reality History Television Michelle Arrow, Macquarie University, Australia
