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POPULAR CULTURE

NEW NEW FORTHCOMING

Women’s Rights Freedom of Speech The Bizarre World

Reflections in Reflections in Art and of Reality Television
Popular Culture Popular Culture STUART LENIG

ANN M. SAVAGE, EDITOR PATRICIA L. DOOLEY

GREENWOOD
GREENWOOD GREENWOOD October 2017, 334pp, 7x10
June 2017, 192pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 April 2017, 166pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 Print: 978-1-4408-3854-5
Print: 978-1-4408-3942-9 Print: 978-1-4408-4339-6 $89.00, £69.00, €81.00
$37.00, £29.00, €34.00 $37.00, £29.00, €34.00 eBook: 978-1-4408-3855-2
eBook: 978-1-4408-3943-6 eBook: 978-1-4408-4340-2
How do reality television programs
Covering from 1900 to the present This book examines how freedom of shape our view of the world and what
day, this book highlights how female speech is reflected in pop culture by we perceive as real and normal? This
artists, actors, writers, and activists looking at numerous examples of films, book explores the bizarre and highly
were involved in the fight for women’s websites, television shows, and songs controversial world of reality television,
rights, with a focus on popular culture that have touched on—and impacted— including its early history, wide
that includes film, literature, music, this issue. variety of subject matter, and social
television, the news, and online media. implications.
FEATURES
FEATURES • Covers freedom of speech issues in FEATURES
• Addresses topics represented in the popular culture in the 19th and 20th • Explains why reality television plays
media, including equal pay, birth centuries as well as the present day such a large role in popular culture
control, sexism, and racism • Examines everything from banned and why it is so representative of
• Highlights female artists, writers, books to comic book censorship, American society in the 21st century
performers, athletes, and activists music, theater, photography, film, • Contextualizes reality television as a
involved in the fight for women’s television, video games, and social postmodernist form of new media
rights over the course of more than a media that has vastly altered the landscape
century • Enables readers to better appreciate of traditional television programming
• Presents an interesting and succinct how freedom of speech and • Examines the phenomenon of reality
guide for some of the most important expression is a subtext in most programming in the context of
moments in media history when aspects of daily life the history of radio and television
women asserted themselves in the broadcasting as it originated in the
quest for equal rights U.S. market
PATRICIA L. DOOLEY joined
the faculty at the Elliott School of
ANN M. SAVAGE, PhD, is professor Communication at Wichita State STUART LENIG, PhD, is professor
of critical communication and University after serving on the faculty of of media studies at Columbia State
media studies at Butler University, the University of Maine-Orono. Community College in Columbia, TN.
Indianapolis, IN.

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