Introduction / Julie Anne Taddeo and Ken Dvorak
Reality TV as social experiment. Citizen Funt : surveillance as Cold War entertainment / Fred Nadis
From social experiment to postmodern jokes : Big brother and the progressive construction of celebrity / Lee Barron
From the kitchen to 10 Downing Street : Jamie's school dinners and the politics of reality cooking / James Leggott and Tobias Hochscherf
The patriotic American is a thin American : fatness and national identity in The biggest loser / Cassandra L. Jones
Class, gender, and reimaging of family life. Disillusionment, divorce, and the destruction of the American dream : An American family and the rise of reality TV / Laurie Rupert and Sayanti Ganguly Puckett
"The television audience cannot be expected to bear too much reality" : The family and reality TV / Su Holmes
Reality TV and the American family / Leigh H. Edwards
Shopping, makeovers, and nationhood : reality TV and women's programming in Canada / Sarah A. Matheson
Babes in bonanzaland : Kid nation, commodification, and the death of play / Debbie Clare Olson
Reality TV and the living history experiment. "A storybook every day" : fiction and history in the Channel 4/PBS house series / Julie Anne Taddeo and Ken Dvorak
"What about giving us a real version of Australian history?" : identity, ethics, and historical understanding in reality history TV / Michelle Arrow
Living history in documentary practice : the making of The colony / Aurora Scheelings.