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Author Becker, Manfred W., author

Title Creating reality in factual television : the frankenbite and other fakes / Manfred W. Becker
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Series Routledge advances in television studies ; [14]
Routledge advances in television studies ; [14]
Summary Creating Reality in Factual Television analyzes the uneasy interaction between economics, culture, and professional ethics in reality and documentary television storytelling. Through the "frankenbite," an editorial tool that extracts and re-orders the salient elements or single words of a statement, interview, or exchange into a revealing confession or argument, the book explores how and why editors manipulate truth in factual television. The author considers how the editing of documentary television is increasingly following reality television's dictate to entertain instead of inform, how the "real" and the "truth" fall victim to the demand to "tell entertaining stories," and how editors must compromise their professional ethics as a result. Drawing on interviews with 75 North American and European editors that explore their experiences and opinions of reality and documentary television practices, and their views on their responsibilities and loyalties in the field, Creating Reality in Factual Television illuminates the real and potential ethical dilemmas of editorial decision making, the context in which decisions are made, and how editors themselves validate the editing choices to themselves and others. Addressing a dramatic development in contemporary media ecology - the age of "alternative facts" - this book is a useful research tool for scholars and students of documentary film, media literacy, genre studies, media ethics, affect theory, and audience perception
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes 1. The Cutting Room as Field of Academic Inquiry 2. Reality Roots 3. Cross-Pollination and the Problem with Story4. Dancing with Contradiction in Factual Television 5.Self-Reflexive Editing for Informed Audiences
Manfred W. Becker is a documentary filmmaker and Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director in the MFA Film program at York University, Canada
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 12, 2020)
Subject Documentary television programs -- Production and direction.
Documentary television programs -- Moral and ethical aspects
Reality television programs -- Production and direction
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Documentary television programs -- Production and direction
Form Electronic book
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