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Dream facades : the cruel architecture of reality TV / Jack Balderrama Morley.

First edition.

New York : Astra House, [2026]

214 pages ; 22 cm

"For fans of Jia Tolentino and Amanda Montell, a probing and lively exploration of the unlikely homes we see on reality TV -- and what they say about American history, modern life, and the architecture of our desires. People like reality TV. There's been a lot written about the cult of celebrity, and how a "reality" angle draws us in through a mix of voyeurism and relatability. But when we look at the houses depicted on these shows, what are we seeing? Predominantly multi-million-dollar single-family homes in areas that forcibly removed groups of people and mimic the style of a whitewashed age. Why do we watch and covet these conservative homes, while professing to want lives unbound by heteronormative patriarchy and outside of suburban fantasia? Jack Balderrama Morley posits two main theories: that our relationships with these shows (and social media) have conflated our physical dwellings with the spaces projected onto and out of our screens to create a "physical-digital hybrid home" that comes to stand in for our actual home; and that what we really covet when we covet these houses is safety and security, not the specifics of the styles being sold. Dream Facades focuses on seven reality TV shows: Selling Sunset; The Kardashians; The Real World; The Bachelor; Trading Spaces; The Real Housewives of Atlanta; and Fire Island, and their specific associated architectural style. Morley takes us through reality TV's labyrinthine properties to illuminate what makes us desire these spaces and devour these shows" -- Dust jacket.

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Mass media and architecture United States.
Architecture, Domestic United States.
Architecture United States Psychological aspects.
Médias et architecture États-Unis.
Architecture domestique États-Unis.
Architecture États-Unis Aspect psychologique.
Architecture, Domestic.
Architecture Psychological aspects.
Mass media and architecture.
Social conditions.
United States Social conditions.
États-Unis Conditions sociales.
United States.

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