Danielle J. Lindemann, "True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us" (FSG, 2022)
New Books in Critical Theory
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Donald Trump and the Rise of Reali TV
From the beginning, i said i didn't want to write a book about donald trump. But clearly he needs to be included in this book. I think decades of watching reality v have kind of primed us to think that way about reality,. and trump was really able to use that skepticism very effectively. Now, om kind of focusing on another project, which actually is about motherhood. It's about, you know, people's senses of mam guilt. And so 've been focusing on that. But of course, it's also related to reality t v and whet i write about motherhood and reality. T v A, so i have an unsatisfying answer, which is
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