Nonfiction vs. Reality TV

Monday, April 1, 2013 to Friday, April 5, 2013

Theme week organized by Laurel Ahnert (Georgia State University).

Collage images from Tru TV, MTV, Wikipedia and CBS. Used and altered under Creative Commons License permission.

Teaching Documentary in a Reality TV Environment: Taxonomies of Production versus Taxonomies of Texts

By David Cooper Moore

Monday, April 1, 2013

Unlock the Gates: Genre and Rhetoric in MSNBC's "Lockup"

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Blurred Boundaries: Approaches to Defining Documentaries and Reality Television

By Evan L. Kropp

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Tell Me a Story and Make It True: Applied Narrative in Reality Television

By Jeffrey David Greene

Friday, April 5, 2013

The Uncanny, the Fourth Wall and Maranaise: Dialectical Metaspaces in Here Comes Honey Boo Boo

Thursday, April 4, 2013