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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Eitzen, Dirk (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2022].
Series:	Young Center books in Anabaptist & Pietist studies.
Subjects:	Amish Mafia (Television program) Reality television programs > Social aspects > United States. Television viewers > Social aspects > United States. Deception. Gossip.

Table of Contents:

Enquiring minds want to know
The roots of reality entertainment
A chronicle of contrivance
The pleasure of being deceived (and its limits)
Gossip and lies
Rights and wrongs.