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Big brother : reality TV in the twenty-first century / Jonathan Bignell.
Van Pelt Library PN1992.8.R43 B54 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bignell, Jonathan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reality television programs.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 189 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke [UK] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- Contents:
- 1 Genesis 8
- The documentary heritage 10
- The possibilities of production technologies 13
- Television institutions 16
- Risking Reality TV 20
- Reality TV as the end of documentary history 25
- Case Study: Wife Swap 28
- 2 The World is Watching 33
- Reality TV and theories of globalization 34
- International programmes and formats from Britain 38
- The globalization of privacy publicized 40
- Reality TV and television scheduling 42
- The globalization of institutional forms 47
- Local regulatory cultures 49
- Case Study: Big Brother as a transnational property 53
- 3 Reality TV 60
- Generic conventions and docusoap 62
- Docusoap, ordinariness and celebrity 65
- The aesthetics of Reality TV 67
- Reality TV and the public sphere 70
- The passion and revelation of the real 72
- Narration and mediation 75
- Case Study: The House series: simulation, recreation and education 80
- 4 Drama 88
- Narrative forms 88
- Performance and genre 91
- Characters 94
- Melodrama 97
- Dramatizing gender 100
- Reality TV and the displacement of drama 103
- From docusoap to drama 106
- Case Study: The Cruise, performance and authenticity 110
- 5 Surveillance 117
- The prison of the real 118
- Spaces of surveillance 122
- Discipline and confession 126
- Rights and regulations 128
- Threat and reassurance 132
- Car crash TV 136
- Case Study: witnessing and helping in Crimewatch UK 138
- 6 Big Brother Culture 144
- Cross-platform and intermedial texts 146
- Audience composition and modes of address 147
- Audience perceptions of Reality TV 149
- Television institutions and Reality TV audiences 155
- Television talk and gossip 156
- Poaching and fandom 160
- Case Study: The Osbournes, celebrity and multi-accentuality 162.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-184) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1403916845
- 1403916853
- OCLC:
- 61520422
- Publisher Number:
- 9781403916846 (hbk.)
- 9781403916853 (pbk.)
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