Reacting to Reality Television

Reacting to Reality Television
Author: Beverley Skeggs
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2012
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0415693705

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As reality television extends into the experiences of the everyday, it makes dramatic and often shocking the mundane aspects of our intimate relations. This book addresses the impact of this endless opening out of intimacy as an entertainment trend that erodes the traditional boundaries between spectator and performer.

Reality TV

Reality TV
Author: Annette Hill
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2014-11-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136177884

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Reality TV is popular entertainment. And yet a common way to start a conversation about it is ‘I wouldn’t want anyone to know this but...’ Why do people love and love to hate reality TV? This book explores reality TV in all its forms - from competitive talent shows to reality soaps - examining a range of programmes from the mundane to those that revel in the spectacle of excess. Annette Hill’s research draws on interviews with television producers on the market of reality TV and audience research with over fifteen thousand participants during a fifteen year period. Key themes in the book include the phenomenon of reality TV as a new kind of inter-generic space; the rise of reality entertainment formats and producer intervention; audiences, fans and anti-fans; the spectacle of reality and sports entertainment; and the ways real people and celebrities perform themselves in cross-media content. Reality TV explores how this form of popular entertainment invites audiences to riff on reality, to debate and reject reality claims, making it ideal for students of media and cultural studies seeking a broader understanding of how media connects with trends in society and culture.

The Politics of Reality Television

The Politics of Reality Television
Author: Marwan M. Kraidy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2010-10-22
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1136913882

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The Politics of Reality Television encompasses an international selection of expert contributions who consider the specific ways media migrations test our understanding of, and means of investigating, reality television across the globe. The book addresses a wide range of topics, including: the global circulation and local adaptation of reality television formats and franchises the production of fame and celebrity around hitherto "ordinary" people the transformation of self under the public eye the tensions between fierce loyalties to local representatives and imagined communities bonding across regional and ethnic divides the struggle over the meanings and values of reality television across a range of national, regional, gender, class and religious contexts. This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students on a range of Media and Television Studies courses, particularly those on the globalisation of television and media, and reality television.

A Companion to Television

A Companion to Television
Author: Janet Wasko
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 649
Release: 2009-12-21
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 140519877X

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A Companion to Television is a magisterial collection of 31 original essays that charter the field of television studies over the past century Explores a diverse range of topics and theories that have led to television’s current incarnation, and predict its likely future Covers technology and aesthetics, television’s relationship to the state, televisual commerce; texts, representation, genre, internationalism, and audience reception and effects Essays are by an international group of first-rate scholars For information, news, and content from Blackwell's reference publishing program please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/reference/

Reality Television

Reality Television
Author: Ruth A. Deller
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2019-11-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1839090235

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Reality television is shown worldwide, features people from all walks of life and covers everything from romance to religion. It has not only changed television, but every other area of the media. So why has reality TV become such a huge phenomenon, and what is its future in an age of streaming and social media?

Reality Television and Class

Reality Television and Class
Author: Beverley Skeggs
Publisher: British Film Institute
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2011-12-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781844573974

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How does class get 'cast' and made performative? What modes are there for people to wrestle-back their forms of representation? And how should we understand this intense manipulation of feeling? This bookexamines why class politics matter against much political and academic rhetoric which refract inequality through other means.

Understanding Reality Television

Understanding Reality Television
Author: Su Holmes
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2004
Genre: Reality TV
ISBN: 9780415317955

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Tracing the history of reality TV from Candid Camera to The Osbournes, Understanding Reality Television examines a range of programmes which claim to depict 'real life'.

The Ethics of Reality TV

The Ethics of Reality TV
Author: Wendy N. Wyatt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2012-05-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1441179348

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Reality television is continuing to grow, both in numbers and in popularity. The scholarship on reality TV is beginning to catch up, but one of the most enduring questions about the genre-Is it ethical?-has yet to be addressed in any systematic and comprehensive way. Through investigating issues ranging from deception and privacy breaches to community building and democratization of TV, The Ethics of Reality TV explores the ways in which reality TV may create both benefits and harms to society. The edited collection features the work of leading scholars in the field of media ethics and provides a comprehensive assessment of the ethical effects of the genre.

A Companion to Reality Television

A Companion to Reality Television
Author: Laurie Ouellette
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 598
Release: 2016-12-19
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1119325196

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International in scope and more comprehensive than existing collections, A Companion to Reality Television presents a complete guide to the study of reality, factual and nonfiction television entertainment, encompassing a wide range of formats and incorporating cutting-edge work in critical, social and political theory. Original in bringing cutting-edge work in critical, social and political theory into the conversation about reality TV Consolidates the latest, broadest range of scholarship on the politics of reality television and its vexed relationship to culture, society, identity, democracy, and “ordinary people” in the media Includes primetime reality entertainment as well as precursors such as daytime talk shows in the scope of discussion Contributions from a list of international, leading scholars in this field