| Description |
xiv, 573 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. ; cased. |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note(s) |
CW808 |
| Contents |
[Part 1: Producing Reality: Industry, Labor and Marketing] Mapping Commercialism in Reality Television / June Deery -- Reality TV and the Political Economy of Amateurism / Andrew Ross -- When Everyone Has Their Own Reality Show / Mark Andrejevic -- Cast-aways: The Plights and Pleasures of Reality Casting and Production Studies / Vicki Mayer -- Program Format Franchising in the Age of Reality Television / Albert Moran. |
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[Part 2: TV Realities: History, Genre and Realism] Realism and Reality Formats / Jonathan Bignell -- Reality TV Experiences: Audiences, Fact, and Fiction / Annette Hill -- From Participatory Video to Reality TV / Daniel Marcus -- Manufacturing "Massness": Aesthetic Form and Industry Practice in the Reality Television Contest / Hollis Griffin -- God, Capitalism and the Family Dog / Eileen Meehan. |
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[Part 3: Dilemmas of Visibility: Identity and Difference] The Bachelorette's Postfeminist Therapy: Transforming Women for Love / Rachel E. Dubrofsky -- Fractured Feminism: Articulations of Feminism, Sex and Class by Reality TV Viewers / Andrea Press -- "It's Been a While Since I've Seen, Like, Straight People:" Queer Visibility in the Age of Post-Network Reality Television / Joshua Gamson -- The Wild Bunch: Men, Labor and Reality Television / Gareth Palmer -- The Conundrum of Race and Reality TV / Catherine Squires -- Tan TV: Reality Television's Post-Racial Delusion / Hunter Hargraves. |
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[Part 4: Empowerment or Exploitation? Ordinary People and Reality TV] Reality TV and the Demotic Turn / Graeme Turner -- DIY(t)Y, Reality-Style: The Cultural Word of Ordinary Celebrity / Laura Grindstaff -- Reality TV's Construction of Ordinary People: Class-Based and Non-Elitist Articulations / Nico Carpentier. |
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[Part 5: Subjects of Reality: Making/Selling Selves and Lifestyles] Mapping the Makeover Maze: The Contours and Contradictions of Makeover TV / Brenda Weber -- House Hunters, Real Estate TV and Everyday Cosmopolitanism / Mimi White -- Life Coaches, Style Mavens and Design Gurus: Everyday Experts on Reality TV / Tania Lewis -- Reality Television Celebrity: Star Consumption and Self Production in Media Culture / Julie Wilson -- Producing "Reality": Branded Content, Branded Selves, Precarious Futures / Alison Hearn. |
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[Part 6: Affective Registers: Reality, Sentimentality and Feeling] A Matter of Feeling: Mediated Affect in Reality TV / Misha Kavka -- "Walking in Another's Shoes: Sentimentality and Philanthropy on Reality TV / Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi. |
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[Part 7: Politics of Reality: Global Culture, National Identity and Public Life] Reality Television, Public Service and Public Life: A Critical Theory Perspective / Peter Lunt -- Reality Talent Shows in China: Transnational Format, Affective Engagement and the Chinese Dream / Ling Yang -- Reality Television From Big Brother to the Arab Uprisings: Neoliberal, Liberal and Geopolitical Considerations / Marwan Kraidy. |
| Local Note / Price |
122.13 |
| Subject(s) |
Reality television programs -- History and criticism.
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| Genre |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| ISBN |
0470659270 |
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9780470659274 |
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