Better Living Through Reality TV: Television and Post-Welfare CitizenshipWiley, 2008 M01 29 - 255 pages Combining cutting-edge theories of culture and government with programming examples—including Todd TV, Survivor, and American Idol—Better Living through Reality TV moves beyond the established concerns of political economy and cultural studies to conceptualize television's evolving role in the contemporary period.
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