Reality squared : televisual discourse on the real / edited by James Friedman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Friedman, James, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Realism on television.

Reality television programs--United States.

Reality television programs.

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2002]

Summary:

Reality-based television has come to play a major role in both production decisions and network strategy. This text examines the representation of reality within the televisual viewing frame, as well as the exponential growth of these programmes.

Contents:

Acting live: TV performance, intimacy, and immediacy (1945-1955) / Rhona J. Berenstein

"Johnny Yuma was a rebel; he roamed through the west": television, race, and the "real" west / Alan Nadel

Daytime politics: Kefauver, McCarthy, and the American housewife / Kristen Hatch

"Happy new year and Auld lang syne": on televisual montage and historical consequences / Vivian Sobchack

Reality TV in the digital era: a paradox in visual culture? / Arild Fetveit

Attraction to distraction: live television and the public sphere / James Friedman

Cyborgs in cyberspace: white pride, pedophilic pornography, and Donna Haraway's manifesto / Daniel Bernardi

Television vectors and the making of a media event: the helicopter, the freeway chase, and national memory / Marita Sturken

Tomorrow will be ... risky and disciplined / Toby Miller

Neighbours from hell: producing incivilities / Gareth Palmer

The court of last resort: making race, crime, and nation on America's most wanted / Margaret Derosia

Prime-time fiction theorizes the docu-real / John Caldwell

Uncertainty, conspiracy, abduction / Jodi Dean

Television, therapy, and the social subject; or, the TV therapy machine / Mimi White.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813529883

9780813529882

0813529891

9780813529899

OCLC:

46866312