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  Disjuncture and Difference in The Amazing Race

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  Robert Moses Peaslee Texas Tech University

  October 13, 2009

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  world, from themselves as they were at the beginning of the race).   The Race, then, would seem to be the ...
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  Life. Unscripted?

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  Chris Tokuhama University of Southern California

  January 30, 2014

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  recent wave of reality television. We can use the Gale hoax to ask, “What happens when we begin to ...
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  Sexual Shakespeare: The 'Boob Tube' Remediated

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  Ellen Joy Letostak Edison State College Online

  June 14, 2013

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  Sexual Shakespeare: The 'Boob Tube' Remediated Shakespeare sex workers remediation reality television pornography Curator's Note Let me set the scene. The idea is this: female American porn stars, recruited nationwide, journey to Hollywood ...
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  Perpetuating the American Dream through Investment Television

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  Emma Frances Bloomfield University of Nevada, Las Vegas

  January 12, 2016

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  Perpetuating the American Dream through Investment Television Tokenism reality television capitalism American dream Curator's Note To determine whether the American Dream is alive and well, one could turn on the television and watch an investment tel ...
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  A Taste for Reality

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  Eva Hageman University of Maryland College Park

  February 28, 2013

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  A Taste for Reality Taste and Award Culture reality television race and class Curator's Note The first Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program was given in 2001. Despite this recognition, popular discourse about quality programming rarely includes ...