基本説明
While the industrial history of the global migrations of reality television is well established, there has been less consideration of the theoretical and methodological implications of this expansion so far. This book encompasses 13 original articles that consider the specific ways these migrations test our understandings of, and means of investigating, reality TV across the globe.
Full Description
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 franchises
the production of fame and celebrity around hitherto "ordinary" people
the transformation of self under the public eye
the tensions between fierce loyalties to local representatives and imagined communities bonding across regional and ethnic divides
the struggle over the meanings and values of reality television across a range of national, regional, gender, class and religious contexts.
This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students on a range of Media and Television Studies courses, particularly those on the globalisation of television and media, and reality television.
Contents
@contents: Selected Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction: Migrating Genres, Travelling Participants, Shifting Theories Katherine Sender PART 1: PRODUCING IDENTITY Introduction Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt Chapter 2. Real-izing Exploitation Mark Andrejevic Chapter 3. When Reality TV is a Job Francois Jost Chapter 4. Just Be Yourself - Only More So: Ordinary Celebrity in the Era of Self-Service Television Laura Grindstaff PART 2: LABORING THE SELF Introduction Adrienne Shaw Chapter 5. Governing Bodies Gareth Palmer Chapter 6. Globalizing Lifestyles? Makeover Television in Singapore Tania Lewis Chapter 7. Reacting to Reality TV: The affective economy of an "extended social/public realm" Helen Wood and Beverly Skeggs PART 3: PERFORMING THE NATION Introduction Oren Livio Chapter 8. Commercial Nationalism on Balkan Reality Television Zala Volcic and Mark Andrejevic Chapter 9. World Citizens 'a la Française': Star Academy and the Negotiations of 'French' Identities Fabienne Darling-Wolf Chapter 10. Reality Television and the Making of Mobile Publics: The Case of Indian Idol Aswin Punathambekar PART 4: MIGRATING ECONOMIES Introduction Tara Liss-Marino Chapter 11. New Industry Dynamics: Lessons From Reality TV in Norway Yngvar Kjus Chapter 12. Continental Reality Television and the Expansion of South African Capital Sean Jacobs Chapter 13. Making Populations Appear Nick Couldry Chapter 14. Reality Television in New Worlds Marwan M. Kraidy
