Trans-reality television : the transgression of reality, genre, politics, and audience

Publication/Creation:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2010]

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

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

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Additional Author/Creators:

Bauwel, Sofie van
Carpentier, Nico

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Reality television programs--Social aspects
Reality television programs--Political aspects

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Introduction -- Trans-reality tv as a site of contingent reality / Sofie Van Bauwel and Nico Carpentier -- Trans-Reality. A short introduction to trans-reality / Sofie Van Bauwel -- The spectacle of the real and whatever other constructions / Sofie Van Bauwel -- On the media representation of reality : Peirce and Auerbach-two unlikely guests in the big brother house / Fernando Andacht -- Reality tv and reality of tv : How much reality is there in reality tv shows? a critical approach / Anastasia Deligiaouri and Mirkica Popovic -- Trans-professionalism undone? the 2007 British tv scandals / Matthew Hibberd -- Trans-Politics. A short introduction to trans-politics and the trans-political / Nico Carpentier -- Post-democracy, hegemony and invisible power : the reality tvmedia professional as primum movens immobile / Nico Carpentier -- Punitive reality tv : televizing punishment and the production of law and order/ Jan Pinseler -- After politics, what is left is the police : police videos and the neo-liberal order / Jan Teurlings -- Hijacking the branded self : reality tv and the politics of subversion / Winnie Salamon -- Trans-Genre. A short introduction to trans-genre / Sofie Van Bauwel -- Genre as discursive practice and the governmentality of formatting in post-documentary tv / Frank Boddin -- Trans-national reality tv : a comparative study of the UK's and Norway's Wife swap / Gunn Sara Enli and Brian McNair -- Trans-Audience. A short introduction to trans-audience / Nico Carpentier -- Trans-audiencehood of Big Brother : discourses of fans, producers and participants / Mikko Hautakangas -- Reality tv and "ordinary" people : re-visiting celebrity, performance and authenticity / Su Holmes -- Lifestyle tv : critical attitudes towards "banal" programming / Tanja Thomas -- Conclusion. The politics of the prefix : from "post" to "trans" (and back)? / Nico Carpentier and Sofie Van Bauwel.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

vi, 332 pages ; 24 cm

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Catalog ID (MMSID):

990016403900302486

ISBN:

0739131885 (cloth : alk. paper)
0739131893 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780739131886 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739131893 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC Number:

560555896

Barcode:

010002474963