Introduction / Laurie Ouellette, Susan Murray -- "Stanley Milgram, Allen Funt, and Me": Cold War Social Science and the Roots of Reality TV" / Anna McCarthy -- "I Think We Need a New Name for It": The Meeting of Documentary and Reality Television / Susan Murray -- Teaching Us to Fake it: The Ritualized Norms of TV's Reality Games / Nick Couldry -- "Expect the Unexpected": Narrative Pleasure and Uncertainty Due to Chance in Survivor / Mary Beth Haralovich, Michael W. Trosset -- Extraordinarily Ordinary: The Osbournes as "An American Family" / Derek Kompare -- The Political Economic Origins of Reali-TV / Chad Raphael -- The End of TV 101: Reality Programs, Formats, and the New Business of Television / Ted Magder -- Court TV: The Evolution of a Reality Style / Chuck Kleinhans, Rick Morris --

Country Hicks and Urban Cliques: Mediating Race, Reality, and Liberalism MTV's The Real World / John Kraszewski -- What do Women Watch? Tuning in to the Compulsory Heterosexuality Channel / Jennifer Maher -- Aliens, Nomads, Mad Dogs and Road Warriors: The Changing Face of Criminal Violence on TV / Elayne Rapping -- "Take Responsibility for Yourself": Neoliberalism, Citizenship, and Reality Television / Laurie Ouellette -- See You in Hell, Johnny Bravo! / Jeffrey Sconce -- Got to Be Real: Mediating Gayness on Survivor / Kathleen LeBesco -- The Meaning of Real Life / Justin Lewis -- "Kiss Me Kat": Shakespeare, Big Brother and the Taming of the Self / John Hartley -- Jamming Big Brother: Webcasting, Audience Intervention, and Narrative Activism / Pamela Wilson.