Nonfiction vs. Reality TV

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

By Alan Pike

Blurred Boundaries: Approaches to Defining Documentaries and Reality Television

By Evan L. Kropp
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Tell Me a Story and Make It True: Applied Narrative in Reality Television

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

By Kate Morgan