I. Lessons about reality ; 1. Individual and cultural identity in the world of reality television / Terri Toles Patkin
2. Contrived television reality: Survivor as a pseudo-event / April L. Roth ; 3. Who owns your personality: reality television and publicity rights / Debora Halbert ; 4. From Dragnet to Survivor: historical and cultural perspectives on reality television / Sean Baker
II. Lessons about playing social games ; 5. Reel life: the social geometry of reality shows / Ellis Godard ; 6. The nonverbal communication of trustworthiness: a necessary Survivor skill / R. Thomas Boone ; 7. Metaphors of survival: a textual analysis of the decision-making strategies of the Survivor contestants / Kathleen M. Propp ; 8. Survivor, social choice, and the impediments to political rationality: reality TV as social science experiment / Ed Wingenbach
III. Lessons beyond the lens ; 9. Mutual metaphors of Survivor and office politics: images of work in popular survivor criticism / Jennifer Thackaberry ; 10. Self-help for savages: the other survivor, primitivism, and the construction of American identity / Steven S. Vrooman ; 11. The communication ethics of Survivor / Marilyn Fuss-Reineck ; 12. Traveling the terrain of screened realities: our reality, our television / Marcy R. Chvasta and Deanna L. Fassett.
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Survivor lessons : essays on communication and reality television. ISBN 0786416688. Published by McFarland in 2003. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
