Trans-reality television : the transgression of reality, genre, politics, and audience / edited by Sofie Van Bauwel and Nico Carpentier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bauwel, Sofie van.

Carpentier, Nico.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reality television programs--Political aspects.

Reality television programs.

Reality television programs--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Trans-Reality Television 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. 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.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1: Trans-Reality TV as a Site of Contingent Reality; Part 1: Trans-Reality; 2: A Short Introduction to Trans-Reality; 3: The Spectacle of the Real and Whatever Other Constructions; 4: On the Media Representation of Reality: Peirce and Auerbach-Two Unlikely Guests in the Big Brother House; 5: Reality TV and Reality of TV: How Much Reality Is There in Reality TV Shows? A Critical Approach; 6: Trans-Professionalism Undone? The 2007 British TV Scandals; Part 2: Trans-Politics

7: A Short Introduction to Trans-Politics and the Trans-Political8: Post-Democracy, Hegemony, and Invisible Power: The Reality TV Media Professional as Primum Movens Immobile; 9: Punitive Reality TV: Televizing Punishment and the Production of Law and Order; 10: After Politics, What Is Left Is the Police: Police Videos and the Neo-Liberal Order; 11: Hijacking the Branded Self: Reality TV and the Politics of Subversion; Part 3: Trans-Genre; 12: A Short Introduction to Trans-Genre; 13: Genre as Discursive Practice and the Governmentality of Formatting in Post-Documentary TV

14: Trans-National Reality TV: A Comparative Study of the U.K.'s and Norway's Wife SwapPart 4: Trans-Audience; 15: A Short Introduction to Trans-Audience; 16: Trans-Audiencehood of Big Brother: Discourses of Fans, Producers, and Participants; 17: Reality TV and ""Ordinary"" People: Re-visiting Celebrity, Performance, and Authenticity; 18: Lifestyle TV: Critical Attitudes toward ""Banal"" Programming; Conclusion; 19: The Politics of the Prefix: From ""Post"" to ""Trans"" (and Back)?; Index; About the Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

979-82-16-31825-5

9786613915047

1-283-60259-8

0-7391-3190-7

OCLC:

855502114