| Description |
x, 302 pages : portraits ; 24cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : understanding reality TV / Su Holmes, Deborah Jermyn -- Candid Camera and the origins of reality TV : contextualising a historical precedent / Bradley D. Clissold -- From Ozzie Nelson to Ozzy Osbourne : the genesis and development of the reality (star) sitcom / Jennifer Gillan -- 'This is about real people!' : video technologies, actuality and affect in the television crime appeal / Deborah Jermyn -- Reality TV, troublesome pictures and panics : reappraising the public controversy around reality TV in Europe / Daniel Biltereyst |
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"All you've got to worry about is the task, having a cup of tea, and doing a bit of sunbathing' : approaching celebrity in Big Brother / Su Holmes -- Temporalities of the real : conceptualising time in reality TV / Misha Kavka, Amy West -- In search of community on reality TV : America's Most Wanted and Survivor / Gray Cavender -- 'New you' : class and transformation in lifestyle television / Gareth Palmer -- Socially soothing stories? Gender, race and class in TLC's A Wedding Story and A Baby Story / Rebecca L. Stephens |
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Household, the basement and The Real World : gay identity in the constructed reality environment / Christopher Pullen -- 'It isn't always Shakespeare, but it's genuine' : cinema's commentary on documentary hybrids / Craig Hight -- Big Brother : reconfiguring the 'active' audience of cultural studies? / Estella Tincknell, Parvati Raghuram -- 'Jump in the pool' : the competitive culture of Survivor fan networks / Derek Foster |
| Summary |
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', from reality formatted game shows to 'real crime' programming and make-over TV. Contributors discuss the phenonenon of reality TV in the context of the debates it has introduced to our social, cultural and televisual agendas, such as the construction of celebrity, fandom, surveillance and the politics of representation. [from publisher's advertisment] |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Television -- Study and teaching.
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Reality television programs -- History and criticism.
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Reality television programs.
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Author |
Holmes, Su.
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Jermyn, Deborah, 1970-
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| LC no. |
2005280753 |
| ISBN |
0415317940 |
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0415317959 paperback |
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