Please post this to Screen-L. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review this book for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Stacy Zellmann Direct Marketing Coordinator University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 612-627-1934 http://www.upress.umn.edu ____________________________________________________________________________ The first in-depth look at this pioneering "reality TV" documentary. AN AMERICAN FAMILY: A Televised Life Jeffrey Ruoff University of Minnesota Press | 184 pages | 46 halftones | 2001 Visible Evidence Series, volume 11 ISBN 0-8166-3560-9 | hardcover | $54.95 ISBN 0-8166-3561-7 | paperback | $19.95 This book is the first to offer a close, sustained look at An American Family‹the documentary that blurred conventions, stirred passions among viewers and reviewers, revised impressions of family life and definitions of private and public, and began the breakdown of distinctions between reality and spectacle that culminated in cultural phenomena from The Oprah Winfrey Show to Survivor. For more information, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/R/%20ruoff_american.html ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html