Chapter 1: The Openness of Space on Twentieth-Century Reality Television
Chapter 2: Diasporic Nostalgia and the Fractured Geographies of Twenty-First Century Urban Reality Television
Chapter 3: Bravo and the Geographies of Urban Servitude
Chapter 4: Nostalgia Versus Historical Continuity—Boston Rob, New York, and Imagining Vulnerable Urban Identities
Chapter 5: Golden Ages and Fool’s Gold—Rural Reality Television During the Era of Urban Expulsions
Discussion Questions
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Biography
Jon Kraszewski is Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of Visual and Sound Media at Seton Hall University. He is author of the book The New Entrepreneurs: An Institutional History of Television Anthology Writers (Wesleyan, 2010), as well numerous articles on television and film.
"Kraszewski’s careful attention to the spatial intersections of class, taste, race, ethnicity, and gender is a highly fruitful method of examining space as "the geographic coordinates of social power within a given place" in the context of reality TV." – Molly A. Schneider, from Film Criticism, Vol. 42, Issue 3
