The University of Southern Mississippi The Aquila Digital Community Dissertations Summer 8-2007 CULTURAL ALV UES, NARRATIVES, AND MYTH IN REALITY TELEVISION Alison Rebecca Foster Miller University of Southern Mississippi Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations Part of the Broadcast and Video Studies Commons, and the Mass Communication Commons Recommended Citation Miller, Alison Rebecca Foster, "CULTURAL VALUES, NARRATIVES, AND MYTH IN REALITY TELEVISION" (2007). Dissertations. 1268. https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations/1268 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The University of Southern Mississippi CULTURAL VALUES, NARRATIVES AND MYTH IN REALITY TELEVISION by Alison Rebecca Foster Miller A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Studies Office of The University of Southern Mississippi in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Approved: August 2007 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. The University of Southern Mississippi CULTURAL VALUES, NARRATIVES AND MYTH IN REALITY TELEVISION by Alison Rebecca Foster Miller Abstract of a Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Studies Office of The University of Southern Mississippi in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy August 2007 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ABSTRACT CULTURAL VALUES, NARRATIVES AND MYTH IN REALITY TELEVISION by Alison Rebecca Foster Miller August 2007 Television programming today consists of many unique genres, many of which have existed since the birth of television in 1948.