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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791559503321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-91388-2

1-136-91389-0

1-283-03830-7

9786613038302

0-203-84356-8

Descrizione fisica

xi, 225 p. : ill

Collana

Shaping inquiry in culture, communication and media studies

Altri autori (Persone)

KraidyMarwan <1972->

SenderKatherine

Disciplina

791.45/32

Soggetti

Reality television programs - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

The Politics of Reality Television encompasses an international selection of expert contributions who consider the specific ways media 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 franchisesthe production of fame and celebrity around hitherto ""ordinary"" peoplethe transformation of self under the public eyethe tensions betw