"Stanley Milgram, Allen Funt, and me": postwar social science and the "first wave" of reality TV / Anna McCarthy
Performing the real: documentary diversions (with afterword) / John Corner
"I think we need a new name for it": the meeting of documentary and reality TV / Susan Murray
Teaching us to fake it: the ritualized norms of television's "reality" games / Nick Couldry
Extraordinarily ordinary: The Osbournes as "an American family" / Derek Kompare
The political economic origins of reali-TV / Chad Raphael
Television 2.0: the business of American television in transition / Ted Magder
Hoaxing the 'real': on the metanarrative of reality television / Alison Hearn
Global TV realities: international markets, geopolitics, and the transcultural contexts of reality TV / John McMurria
Country hicks and urban cliques: mediating race, reality, and liberalism on MTV's The real world / Jon Kraszewski
"Take responsibility for yourself": Judge Judy and the neoliberal citizen / Laurie Ouellette
Belabored reality: making it work on The simple life and Project runway / Heather Hendershot
Cinderella burps: gender, performativity, and the dating show / Jonathan Gray
The comedic treatment of reality: Kathy Griffin: My life on the D-list, Fat actress, and The comeback / Heather Osborne-Thompson
Melancholy, merit, and merchandise: the postwar audience participation show / Amber Watts
Visceral literacy : reality TV, savvy viewers, and auto-spies / Mark Andrejevic
Buying into American idol: how we are being sold on reality television / Henry Jenkins.