1st Edition
Inside Reality TV Producing Race, Gender, and Sexuality on "Big Brother"
1 Investigating the Reality TV Paradox
2 “Just Be Yourself,” and Other Casting Fairy Tales
3 “Fagan: Awesome Representative of the Gay Community”
Interlude
4 Performatively Spectating Houseguests of Color
5 Life After Big Brother
Index
Biography
Ragan Fox is Professor of Communication at California State University, Long Beach. He is the author of two poetry collections, Heterophobia (2006) and Exile in Gayville (2009). In the summer of 2010, Fox was a contestant on the twelfth season of CBS’s Big Brother. He currently lives in West Hollywood with his French bulldog, Beau.
"Fox’s ability to combine lived experience with critical theory succeeds in providing a new critical lens for television scholars, particularly undergraduates, to engage with the evergrowing phenomenon of reality television."
Rhys Jones, University of Liverpool, UK, from "Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies 15(1)"
