Understanding reality television / edited by Su Holmes and Deborah Jermyn.
Contributor(s): Holmes, Su
| Jermyn, DeborahPublisher: London : Routledge, 2004Description: x, 302 p.; 24 cm001: 14108ISBN: 0415317959; 9780415317955; 0415317940; 9780415317948Subject(s): Reality television programs -- History and criticismDDC classification: 791.45655 LOC classification: PN1992.8.R43 | U53 2004
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'Popular Factual Programming' has rapidly come to occupy a place at the forefront of contemporary television culture on an international scale. Tracing the history of reality TV from Candid Camera to The Osbournes, Understanding Reality Television examines a range of programmes which claim to depict 'real life', from reality formatted game shows to 'real crime' programming and make-over TV. Contributors discuss the phenonenon of reality TV in the context of the debates it has introduced to our social, cultural and televisual agendas, such as the construction of celebrity, fandom, surveillance and the politics of representation.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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