Reality TV : the work of being watched / Mark Andrejevic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andrejevic, Mark, 1964-

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Critical media studies.

Critical media studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reality television programs.

Television broadcasting--Social aspects.

Television broadcasting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Campus eBookstore Inc - CEI, 2023.

Summary:

Drawing on cultural theory and interviews with fans, cast members, and producers, this book places the reality TV trend within a broader social context, tracing its relationship to the development of a digitally enhanced, surveillance-based interactive economy and to a savvy mistrust of mediated reality in general. Surveying several successful reality-TV formats, the book links the rehabilitation of 'Big Brother' to the increasingly important economic role played by the work of being watched. The author enlists critical social theory to examine how the appeal of 'the real' is deployed as a per

Contents:

Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Between the New Medium and the Old; 2 The Promise of the Digital Revolution; 3 Rediscovering Reality; 4 The Kinder, Gentler Gaze of Big Brother; 5 Access to the Real; 6 It's All about the Experience; 7 Reality TV and Voyeurism; 8 Survivor and Uncanny Capitalism; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-240) and index.

Print Version Record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-41131-4

979-88-8186-642-6

0-7425-2747-6

0-585-48290-X

OCLC:

854520978