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- Title
Of Scripts and Scriptures: Why Plain People Perpetuate a Media Fast.
- Authors
Cooper, Thomas W.
- Abstract
The article discusses the reaction of the Amish to the reality television program "Amish in the City," which strongly boosted ratings of Viacom's network UPN. The Old Order Amish feel that electronic media are deceitful. To them electronic and photographic images do not fairly represent reality any more than the handful of relatively radical teenagers on "Amish in the City" represents Amish society. To them, films and television programs impose damaging stereotypes upon an honorable traditional American.
- Subjects
AMISH in the City (TV program); REALITY television programs; AMISH; UPN (Television Network); MOTION pictures; DIGITAL media
- Publication
Journal of American Culture, 2006, Vol 29, Issue 2, p139
- ISSN
1542-7331
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1542-734X.2006.00325.x