Overview
- 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 culture, society, identity, democracy, and “ordinary people” in the media
- Includes primetime reality entertainment as well as precursors such as daytime talk shows in the scope of discussion
- Contributions from a list of international, leading scholars in this field
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781118599747 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 12/16/2013 |
Sold by: | JOHN WILEY & SONS |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 592 |
File size: | 2 MB |
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Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors ixIntroduction 1Laurie Ouellette
Part One Producing Reality: Industry, Labor, and Marketing 9
1 Mapping Commercialization in Reality Television 11June Deery
2 Reality Television and the Political Economy of Amateurism 29Andrew Ross
3 When Everyone Has Their Own Reality Show 40Mark Andrejevic
4 Cast-aways: The Plights and Pleasures of Reality Casting and Production Studies 57Vicki Mayer
5 Program Format Franchising in the Age of Reality Television 74Albert Moran
Part Two Television Realities: History, Genre, and Realism 95
6 Realism and Reality Formats 97Jonathan Bignell
7 Reality TV Experiences: Audiences, Fact, and Fiction 116Annette Hill
8 From Participatory Video to Reality Television 134Daniel Marcus
9 Manufacturing “Massness”: Aesthetic Form and Industry Practice in the Reality Television Contest 155Hollis Griffin
10 God, Capitalism, and the Family Dog 171Eileen R. Meehan
Part Three Dilemmas of Visibility: Identity and Difference 189
11 The Bachelorette’s Postfeminist Therapy: Transforming Women for Love 191Rachel E. Dubrofsky
12 Fractured Feminism: Articulations of Feminism, Sex, and Class by Reality TV Viewers 208Andrea L. Press
13 “It’s Been a While Since I’ve Seen, Like, Straight People”: Queer Visibility in the Age of Postnetwork Reality Television 227Joshua Gamson
14 The Wild Bunch: Men, Labor, and Reality Television 247Gareth Palmer
15 The Conundrum of Race and Reality Television 264Catherine R. Squires
16 Tan TV: Reality Television’s Postracial Delusion 283Hunter Hargraves
Part Four Empowerment or Exploitation? Ordinary People and Reality Television 307
17 Reality Television and the Demotic Turn 309Graeme Turner
18 DI(t)Y, Reality-Style: The Cultural Work of Ordinary Celebrity 324Laura Grindstaff
19 Reality Television’s Construction of Ordinary People: Class-Based and Nonelitist Articulations of Ordinary People and Their Discursive Affordances 345Nico Carpentier
Part Five Subjects of Reality: Making/Selling Selves and Lifestyles 367
20 Mapping the Makeover Maze: The Contours and Contradictions of Makeover Television 369Brenda Weber
21 House Hunters, Real Estate Television and Everyday Cosmopolitanism 386Mimi White
22 Life Coaches, Style Mavens, and Design Gurus: Everyday Experts on Reality Television 402Tania Lewis
23 Reality Television Celebrity: Star Consumption and Self-Production in Media Culture 421Julie A. Wilson
24 Producing “Reality”: Branded Content, Branded Selves, Precarious Futures 437Alison Hearn
Part Six Affective Registers: Reality, Sentimentality, and Feeling 457
25 A Matter of Feeling: Mediated Affect in Reality Television 459Misha Kavka
26 “Walking in Another’s Shoes”: Sentimentality and Philanthropy on Reality Television 478Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi
Part Seven The Politics of Reality: Global Culture, National Identity, and Public Life 499
27 Reality Television, Public Service, and Public Life: A Critical Theory Perspective 501Peter Lunt
28 Reality Talent Shows in China: Transnational Format, Affective Engagement, and the Chinese Dream 516Ling Yang
29 Reality Television from Big Brother to the Arab Uprisings: Neoliberal, Liberal, and Geopolitical Considerations 541Marwan M. Kraidy
Index 557
What People are Saying About This
“Laurie Ouellette has created an indispensable resource for those working in media studies, television studies, communication, and critical industry studies. This is a lively and unique collection, including essays by so many and such diverse scholars who take reality television as a context for understanding broader cultural, economic and political conditions and questions about everyday life. The reach of the book is expansive, beginning with industry and labor issues involved in producing reality television, ending with global politics and distribution, with smart, incisive analyses of histories, identity, affect, and subjectivities in between. After several decades of reality television and scholarship that investigates it, this book offers a convincing, important, and timely contribution to the field.” –Sarah Banet-Weiser, University of Southern California, USA