The Politics Of Reality Television

Author : Marwan M. Kraidy,Katherine Sender
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136913884

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The Politics of Reality Television by Marwan M. Kraidy,Katherine Sender Pdf

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.

Author : Marwan M. Kraidy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521769198

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Reality Television and Arab Politics by Marwan M. Kraidy Pdf

This book analyzes how reality television fuelled heated polemics over cultural authenticity, gender relations, and political participation in the Middle East.

Author : Marwan M. Kraidy,Katherine Sender
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:969588098

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The Politics of Reality Television : Global Perspectives by Marwan M. Kraidy,Katherine Sender Pdf

Author : Carpentier,Van Bauwel
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739131909

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Trans-Reality Television by Carpentier,Van Bauwel Pdf

Trans-Reality Television: The Transgression of Reality, Genre, Politics, and Audience offers an overview of contributions which engage with the phenomenon of reality television as a tool to reflect on societal and mediated transformations and transgressions. While some contributors delve deep into the theoretical issues, others approach the topic at hand through empirical studies of specific reality television formats and programs. The chapters in this volume are divided into four sections, all of which deal with how we see the fluid social at work in reality television through the trans-real, trans-politics, trans-genre, and trans-audience. The first section stresses the concept of the trans-real. These chapters go into the complexity of the construction of reality in reality television. The second section, which deals with the concept of trans-politics, offers a diversity of perspectives on the articulation and re-articulation of politics and the political. In the third section, trans-genre, the chapters analyze how the modern conceptualizations of genre and format are transcended. Finally, the last set of chapters articulate the concept of trans-audiences, using case studies of particular audiences and a study of reality celebrities. Trans-Reality Television concludes by returning to the sense and nonsense of the use of these 'post' concepts.

Author : Laurie Ouellette
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781119325192

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A Companion to Reality Television by Laurie Ouellette Pdf

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

Author : Brenda R. Weber
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822376644

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Reality Gendervision by Brenda R. Weber Pdf

This essay collection focuses on the gendered dimensions of reality television in both the United States and Great Britain. Through close readings of a wide range of reality programming, from Finding Sarah and Sister Wives to Ghost Adventures and Deadliest Warrior, the contributors think through questions of femininity and masculinity, as they relate to the intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality. They connect the genre's combination of real people and surreal experiences, of authenticity and artifice, to the production of identity and norms of citizenship, the commodification of selfhood, and the naturalization of regimes of power. Whether assessing the Kardashian family brand, portrayals of hoarders, or big-family programs such as 19 Kids and Counting, the contributors analyze reality television as a relevant site for the production and performance of gender. In the process, they illuminate the larger neoliberal and postfeminist contexts in which reality TV is produced, promoted, watched, and experienced. Contributors. David Greven, Dana Heller, Su Holmes, Deborah Jermyn, Misha Kavka, Amanda Ann Klein, Susan Lepselter, Diane Negra, Laurie Ouellette, Gareth Palmer, Kirsten Pike, Maria Pramaggiore, Kimberly Springer, Rebecca Stephens, Lindsay Steenberg, Brenda R. Weber

Author : Su Holmes,Deborah Jermyn
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Reality TV
ISBN : 0415317959

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Understanding Reality Television by Su Holmes,Deborah Jermyn Pdf

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'.

Author : Tom Syverson
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789045826

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Reality Squared by Tom Syverson Pdf

In this concise but rich book, Syverson refutes the common notion that reality television is superficial or inauthentic, explaining how such criticisms fail to appreciate the way that we form social reality in the first place. By examining shows like The Hills, The Real Housewives, Vanderpump Rules, and The Bachelor alongside postmodern philosophy, feminist theory, and political economy, Syverson argues that we can confront today’s postmodern condition only by accepting it on its own terms. To what extent does reality television mimic and shape our public and personal lives? Is reality television a dangerous, shallow decadence, or can it provide the key to understanding our postmodern moment? And above all, what does the election of Donald Trump mean for progressive fans of the genre? Reality Squared tackles these questions head-on, arguing that reality television represents the great modern art form, and the only entertainment vehicle capable of showing what it feels like to be alive today.

Author : June Deery
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745690421

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Reality TV by June Deery Pdf

Reality TV has changed television and changed reality, even if we are not among the millions who watch. Written for a broad audience, this accessible overview addresses questions such as: How real is reality TV? How do its programs represent gender, sex, class, and race? How does reality TV relate to politics, to consumer society, to surveillance? What kind of ethics are on display? Drawing on current media research and the author’s own analysis, this study encompasses the history and evolution of reality television, its production of reflexive selves and ordinary celebrity, its advertising and commercialization, and its spearheading of new relations between television and social media. To dismiss this programming as trivial is easy. Deery demonstrates that reality television merits serious attention and her incisive analysis will interest students in media studies, cultural studies, politics, sociology, and anyone who is simply curious about this global phenomenon.

Author : Beverley Skeggs,Helen Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780415693707

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Reacting to Reality Television by Beverley Skeggs,Helen Wood Pdf

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.

Author : Susan Murray,Laurie Ouellette
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814757345

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Reality TV by Susan Murray,Laurie Ouellette Pdf

A collection of essays, which provide a comprehensive picture of how and why the genre of reality television emerged, what it means, how it differs from earlier television programming, and how it engages societies, industries, and individuals.

Author : Lemi Baruh,Ji Hoon Park
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527553217

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Reel Politics by Lemi Baruh,Ji Hoon Park Pdf

In the mid-1980s, Neil Postman claimed that television made entertainment the natural format for the representation of all experience. While Postman’s argument still is pertinent to a description of contemporary television shows, it also seems increasingly more accurate to argue that “reality-based” entertainment is quickly becoming the referential format for televisual representations of our experience in the 21st century. Chapters in this edited volume explore reality television’s place within contemporary media landscape in terms of its potential for political engagement. The authors engage with a variety of issues such as politics of authenticity and performance, audience reception of political issues, ethics and media regulation, politics of self-presentation, modernity, and collective identity. The diversity of perspectives and issues presented in this book cautions readers both against quickly dismissing reality television’s potential as a platform for political discourse and against subscribing to the celebratory rhetoric regarding the democratic potential of reality television. Reel Politics: Reality Television as a Platform for Political Discourse furthers our understanding of the semiotic openness of the reality text and the variations in social, cultural and political contexts across which the reality television genre formulas migrate.

Author : Misha Kavka
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748654352

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Reality TV by Misha Kavka Pdf

This book is a study of the 'Reality TV' format which, in less than a decade, has transformed network programming schedules, branded satellite and digital stations, become a favourite target for anti-television campaigners, and turned viewers into savvy r

Author : Rachel E. Dubrofsky
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780739169254

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The Surveillance of Women on Reality Television by Rachel E. Dubrofsky Pdf

Rachel E. Dubrofsky examines the reality TV series The Bachelor and The Bachelorette in one of the first book-length feminist analysis of the reality TV genre. The research found in The Surveillance of Women on Reality TV: Watching The Bachelor and The Bachelorette meets the growing need for scholarship on the reality genre. This book asks us to be attentive to how the surveillance context of the program impacts gendered and racialized bodies. Dubrofsky takes up issues that cut across the U.S. cultural landscape: the use of surveillance in the creation of entertainment products, the proliferation of public confession and its configuration as a therapeutic tool, the ways in which women's displays of emotion are shown on television, the changing face of popular feminist discourse (notions of choice and empowerment), and the recentering of whiteness in popular media.

Author : Jon Kraszewski
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317806042

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Reality TV by Jon Kraszewski Pdf

From early first-wave programs such as Candid Camera, An American Family, and The Real World to the shows on our television screens and portable devices today, reality television consistently takes us to cities—such as New York, Los Angeles, and Boston—to imagine the place of urbanity in American culture and society. Jon Kraszewski offers the first extended account of this phenomenon, as he makes the politics of urban space the center of his history and theory of reality television. Kraszewski situates reality television in a larger economic transformation that started in the 1980s when America went from an industrial economy, when cities were home to all classes, to its post-industrial economy as cities became key points in a web of global financing, expelling all economic classes except the elite and the poor. Reality television in the industrial era reworked social relationships based on class, race, and gender for liberatory purposes, which resulted in an egalitarian ethos in the genre. However, reality television of the post-industrial era attempts to convince viewers that cities still serve their interests, even though most viewers find city life today economically untenable. Each chapter uses a key theoretical concept from spatial theory—such as power geometries, diasporic nostalgia, orientalism, the imagination of social expulsions, and the relationship between the country and the city—to illuminate the way reality television engages this larger transformation of urban space in America.