Fooling with the Amish : Amish mafia, entertaining fakery, and the evolution of reality TV /
Amish Mafia was a fake reality television show that aired on Discovery Channel from 2012 to 2015. This book examines the show's rhetorical techniques, audience reception and cultural circumstances to address two general question. How and why are people taken in by falsehoods in the media? What...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2022].
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| Series: | Young Center books in Anabaptist & Pietist studies.
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| Summary: | Amish Mafia was a fake reality television show that aired on Discovery Channel from 2012 to 2015. This book examines the show's rhetorical techniques, audience reception and cultural circumstances to address two general question. How and why are people taken in by falsehoods in the media? What is it about the so-called reality of reality entertainments that appeals to and gratifies viewers? The book's ultimate answer to these questions, supported with many kinds of evidence, is that, in taking liberties with facts, Amish Mafia and other forms of entertaining fakery, including fake news, work very much like gossip. |
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| Physical Description: | 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781421444185 1421444186 |