Steven Schwarz

English 102

2/21/2012

Annotated Bibliography

Galician, Mary-Lou. "Must Marry TV."Critical thinking about Sex, love, and romance in the mass media : media literacy applications . Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007. 261-364. Print.

This book approaches the representation of romantic relationships in mass media. It will help me develop a greater idea of what the viewers find appealing about these reality romance shows, and why anyone would wish to be on the shows themselves.

Dubrofsky, Rachel. Fallen Women in Reality TV. New York, NY: Taylor and Francis, 2009. Print.

This book more closely describes the women in the reality TV shows and how their wild emotions are what make the climactic scenes each week. This will help me gather a more close analysis of what makes these shows believable and how they affect the female viewer.

Hernandez, Virginia Rose. ""I'm sorry this hasn't been a fairy tale" : examining romance reality TV through The bachelor." Institutional Repositories | Texas Digital Library. Version 1. University of Texas at Austin, n.d. Web. 21 Feb. 2012. <http://repositories.tdl.org/tdl-ir/handle/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3277>.

The site goes into detail about what type of social structure these shows hold. It will help me describe the type of lifestyle that the show promotes for its viewers.