TY  - GEN
T1  - Fooling with the Amish : Amish mafia, entertaining fakery, and the evolution of reality TV
T2  - Young Center books in Anabaptist & Pietist studies.
A1  - Eitzen, Dirk
LA  - English
PP  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
YR  - 2022
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1328132743
AB  - "Amish Mafia was a fake reality TV show that aired on Discovery Channel from 2012 to 2015. This book examines the show's rhetorical techniques, audience reception, and cultural circumstances to address two general questions: How and why are people taken in by falsehoods in the media? What is it about the so-called reality of reality entertainments that appeals to and gratifies viewers? The book's ultimate answer to these questions, supported with many kinds of evidence, is that, in taking liberties with facts, Amish Mafia and other forms of entertaining fakery, including fake news, work very much like gossip"--
OP  - 239
CN  - PN1992.77.A5265 E38 2022eb
SN  - 9781421444192
SN  - 1421444194
SN  - 9781421444185
KW  - Amish Mafia (Television program)
KW  - Reality television programs : Social aspects : United States.
KW  - Television viewers : Social aspects : United States.
KW  - Deception.
KW  - Gossip.
KW  - Téléspectateurs : Aspect social : États-Unis.
KW  - Tromperie.
KW  - Potins.
KW  - Deception
KW  - Gossip
KW  - Reality television programs : Social aspects
KW  - Television viewers : Social aspects
KW  - United States
ER  -