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Autore: |
Ouellette Laurie
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Titolo: |
A companion to reality television / / edited by Laurie Ouellette
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Pubblicazione: | Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts ; ; Oxford, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014 |
©2014 | |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 electronic resource (xiv, 573 p.) : ill |
Disciplina: | 791.45/75 |
Soggetto topico: | Reality television programs - History and criticism |
Classificazione: | PER010030 |
Altri autori: | OuelletteLaurie |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Studying Reality Television; What Is Reality Television?; Part Overviews; References; Part One: Producing Reality; 1: Mapping Commercialization in Reality Television; Paid Programming: The Branding of Broadcast Content; "Made possible by"; Social television; Merchandising; Commercialization of and by participants; Cutting Costs; Commercialization as Topic; Strategic consumption; Hyperconsumption as spectacle; Business reps; References; 2: Reality Television and the Political Economy of Amateurism |
The Assault on Labor A Symmetrical Bargain?; References; 3: When Everyone Has Their Own Reality Show; Getting Real; The Work of the Real; Experimental Reality; Productive Surveillance; "Attention Capital" in the Information Economy; Total Information Awareness Resurrected; References; 4: Cast-aways: The Plights and Pleasures of Reality Casting and Production Studies; The Labor of Studying Reality Labor; Casting Work and Commodity Exchange; Casting in "New Economy" Contexts; Cultural Dynamics in Emotion Work; Unwrapping the Wrap; References | |
5: Program Format Franchising in the Age of Reality Television Overview; History; Commodifying Commerce and Culture; Program Franchising and Structural Change in the World Television System; Franchising Majors; Researching Format Franchising; Conclusion; References; Part Two: Television Realities; 6: Realism and Reality Formats; Reality and Value; Denotation and Observation; The Significance of Narrative Structure; References; 7: Reality TV Experiences: Audiences, Fact, and Fiction; Reality Television Experiences; Sense and Performance; Cultural Contexts; Conclusion; Research Note | |
Acknowledgments References; 8: From Participatory Video to Reality Television; The Roots of Reality Television: Realism/Participation/Celebrity; Critiques of Media and Culture; Domestic Drama and Simulation; Later Experiments; References; 9: Manufacturing "Massness": Aesthetic Form and Industry Practice in the Reality Television Contest; Historicizing Massness; Qualities of Massness; Massness is aesthetic; Massness is spatial; Massness is demographic; Massness is logical; Implications of Massness; Conclusion; References; 10: God, Capitalism, and the Family Dog; Meeting the Dog and His Family | |
Making Meaning: The Family Dog The Chapmans: Family, Fiction, and Flexibility; Dog the Bounty Hunter: Family Life and Family Work; Bail Bonds 101; Dog's God: Prayer Circles, Sermons in the SUV, Parking-Lot Rituals; The Family, Capitalism, God, and Dog; References; Part Three: Dilemmas of Visibility; 11: The Bachelorette's Postfeminist Therapy: Transforming Women for Love; An Industry; Setting the Scene; Postfeminism and Therapeutic Transformation; A Strategy for Love: Career on the Back Burner; A Risk for Love: Jobless but at a Man's Disposal; Love versus Career: A Gendered Struggle | |
Closing Thoughts | |
Sommario/riassunto: | International in scope and more comprehensive than existing collections, A Companion to Reality Television presents a complete guide to the study of reality, factual and nonfiction television entertainment, encompassing a wide range of formats and incorporating cutting-edge work in critical, social and political theory.Original in bringing cutting-edge work in critical, social and political theory into the conversation about reality TV Consolidates the latest, broadest range of scholarship on the politics of reality television and its vexed relationship to |
Titolo autorizzato: | A companion to reality television ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-119-32519-6 |
1-118-59974-8 | |
1-118-59962-4 | |
1-118-59959-4 | |
1-118-59975-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910820708803321 |
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