The politics of reality television : global perspectives / edited by Marwan M. Kraidy and Katherine Sender.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kraidy, Marwan M., 1972-

Sender, Katherine.

Series:

Shaping inquiry in culture, communication and media studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reality television programs--Political aspects.

Reality television programs.

Physical Description:

xi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Summary:

Reality television is global. Transnational television companies and international distribution networks facilitate the worldwide circulation of popular shows; the 1990s in particular saw the growth of media companies that specialize in the development of reality television formats that are easily adaptable to local variations. While the industrial history of the global migrations of reality television is well established, there has been less consideration of the theoretical and methodological implications of this expansion.

The Politics of Reality Television encompasses an international selection of expert contributions which consider the specific ways these 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.

The Politics of Reality Television proposes ways in which we can think through the international dimensions of reality television in the context of highly mobile media, politics, and publics. It offers a global, comparative examination of reality television alongside empirical research about the genre, its producers, and consumers.

This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students on a range of Media and Television Studies courses, particularly those on the globalization of television and media, and reality television. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : migrating genres, travelling participants, shifting theories / Katherine Sender

Producing identity. Introduction / Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt

Real-izing exploitation / Mark Andrejevic

When reality TV is a job / Francois Jost

Just be yourself

only more so : ordinary celebrity in the era of self-service television / Laura Grindstaff

Laboring the self. Introduction / Adrienne Shaw

Governing bodies / Gareth Palmer

Globalizing lifestyles? makeover television in Singapore / Tania Lewis

Reacting to reality TV : the affective economy of an "extended social/public realm" / Helen Wood and Beverly Skeggs

Performing the nation. Introduction / Oren Livio

Commercial nationalism on Balkan reality television / Zala Volcic and Mark Andrejevic

World citizens "a la Francaise : Star academy and the negotiations of "French" identities / Fabienne Darling-Wolf

Reality television and the making of mobile publics : the case of Indian idol / Aswin Punathambekar

Migrating economies. Introduction / Tara Liss-Marino

New industry dynamics : lessons from reality TV in Norway / Yngvar Kjus

Continental reality television and the expansion of South African capital / Sean Jacobs

Making populations appear / Nick Couldry

Reality television in new Worlds / Marwan Kraidy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415588249

0415588243

9780415588256

0415588251

9780203843567

0203843568

OCLC:

560554969