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1 online resource (331 pages) |
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Critical Studies in Television; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Table of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Epigraph; Introduction -- "Interrogating the Obvious"; Chapter 1 -- "You Cannot Talk to the Guys in the Boat"; The Digital Paradox; Survivor as Society?; Notes; Chapter 2 -- "Apparently Reprehensible Material"; Class as the Uber-narrative; Jameson's Other Works, "Prickly" Writing, and Critics; Survivor Alliances and the Unconscious; Notes; Chapter 3 -- "If It Happens Again ... "; Taking Control; You Will Deny This Three Times. |
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The Emergence, and Fall, of the Hero(ine)A Dream Deferred; Notes; Chapter 4 -- "They're All Lying to Me"; "These Guys Brought the Game in With Them"; "An Alliance of One"; Notes; Chapter 5 -- "A Really Passionate Affair"; Something from Nothing: Colleen and Greg; Nothing from Something: Ethan and "Mama" Kim; Something from Something? The Strange Case of Amazon's Roger; Notes; Chapter 6 -- "These Three Girls Have All Been Riding Coattails"; Gender and Television; Gossipy Girls and Sex-Crazed Boys: Stereotypes in the Amazon; A Pearl Islands Mutiny; Opposites Attract; The Gender-Class Nexus; Notes. |
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Chapter 7 -- "Thrashing Around Like I'm Thirty-Five""Invisible" Indeed; The Importance of Being Eldest: Age and Alliances; Older, Wiser-and More Powerful?; Notes; Chapter 8 -- "This Thing Runs Deeper Than a Game"; African-Americans on Entertainment Programs; African-Americans on News Programs; "A Gross Misrepresentation of Who I Am"; Not-So-Sweet Sixteen; Well Below Average-But Why?; "Playing the Race Card" in the Marquesas; "I Almost Said White Values": The Class-Race Connection; Notes; Conclusion -- "Always Historicize!"; Appendix A -- Synopses of First Eleven Survivor Seasons. |
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Appendix B -- Contestant Profiles and RatingsAppendix C -- Methodology; Bibliography; Index; About the Author. |
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Tribal Warfare thoroughly investigates a central element of the hit reality television show Survivor that the existing literature on reality television has overlooked: class politics. Christopher J. Wright combines textual analysis and survey research to demonstrate that Survivor operates and resonates as a political allegory. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Survivor (Television program)
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Survivor (Television program) |
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Survivor (Television program) |
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Reality television programs -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Reality television programs -- Political aspects. |
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United States. |
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Reality television programs. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Wright, Christopher J. Tribal Warfare : Survivor and the Political Unconscious of Reality Television. Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2006 9780739111666 |
| ISBN |
9780739162026 (electronic book) |
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0739162020 (electronic book) |
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