03232nam 2200697Ia 450 991080629990332120200520144314.01-136-50244-01-280-66235-297866136392880-203-14423-61-136-50245-910.4324/9780203144237 (CKB)2670000000203506(EBL)957761(OCoLC)798534080(SSID)ssj0000716356(PQKBManifestationID)11451058(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000716356(PQKBWorkID)10718169(PQKB)10913524(MiAaPQ)EBC957761(Au-PeEL)EBL957761(CaPaEBR)ebr10566826(CaONFJC)MIL363928(OCoLC)795705248(OCoLC)731925341(FINmELB)ELB140444(EXLCZ)99267000000020350620111017d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReacting to reality television performance, audience and value /by Beverley Skeggs and Helen Wood1st ed.New York Routledge20121 online resource (261 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-69371-3 0-415-69370-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Reacting to Reality Television; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Reacting to Reality Television; 1. Reality Television: From Representation to Intervention; 2. Performance and the Value of Personhood; 3. Textual Intimacies; 4. Reacting to Reality Television: Methodology; 5. Affect and Ambiguity, Not Governmentality; 6. From Affect to Authority: The Making of the Moral Person; 7. The Productive Person: Recognizing Labour and Value; 8. Conclusions: Intimacy, Ideology, Value and Politics; IndexThe unremitting explosion of reality television across the schedules has become a sustainable global phenomenon generating considerable popular and political fervour.The zeal with which television executives seize on the easily replicated formats is matched equally by the eagerness of audiences to offer themselves up as television participants for others to watch and criticise. But how do we react to so many people breaking down, fronting up, tearing apart, dominating, empathising, humiliating, and seemingly laying bare their raw emotion for our entertainment? Do we feel sad when othReality television programsSocial aspectsReality television programsPsychological aspectsTelevision viewersAttitudesReality television programsSocial aspects.Reality television programsPsychological aspects.Television viewersAttitudes.791.45/655Skeggs Beverley858419Wood Helen1972-865989MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910806299903321Reacting to reality television4045254UNINA