Inside Reality TV: Producing Race, Gender, and Sexuality on "Big Brother"

In the summer of 2010, Ragan Fox was one of twelve people selected to participate in the twelfth season of CBS's reality program Big Brother. Offering a rare, autobiographical, and behind-the-scenes peek behind Big Brother's theatrical curtain, Fox provides a scholarly account of the show's casting procedures, secret soundstage interactions, and viewer involvement, while investigating how the program's producers, fans, and players theatrically render identities of racial and sexual minorities. Using autoethnography, textual analysis, and spectator commentary as research, Inside Reality TV reflects on and critiques how identity is constructed on reality television, and the various ways in which people from historically oppressed groups are depicted in mass media.

Inside Reality TV

Humor & Entertainment

Fox, Ragan

Television

Routledge

Readers will discover within these pages, why Ragan Fox is among the leading queer performance poets in the nation. This literary debut includes subtle and nuanced exercises that interrogate gender, violence, sexuality, and heteronormativity. Heterophobia is accessible, riotously funny, heart-breaking, and undeniably real.

Heterophobia

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Lethe Pr

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