In the summer of 2010, Ragan Fox was one of twelve people selected to participate in the twelfth season of CBS's reality program
Big Brother
. Offering a rare, autobiographical, and behind-the-scenes peek behind
's theatrical curtain, Fox provides a scholarly account of the show's casting procedures, secret soundstage interactions, and viewer involvement, while investigating how the program's producers, fans, and players theatrically render identities of racial and sexual minorities. Using autoethnography, textual analysis, and spectator commentary as research,
Inside Reality TV
reflects on and critiques how identity is constructed on reality television, and the various ways in which people from historically oppressed groups are depicted in mass media.