Religion and Reality TV

Faith in Late Capitalism
Herausgeber: Einstein, Mara; Winston, Diane; Madden, Katherine

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Produktbeschreibung

Why is reality television flourishing in today's expanding media market? Religion and Reality TV: Faith in Late Capitalism argues that the reality genre offers answers to many of life's urgent questions: Why am I important? What gives my life meaning? How do I present my best self to the world? Case studies address these questions by examining religious representations through late capitalist lenses, including the maintenance of the self, the commodification of the sacred, and the performance of authenticity. The book's fourteen essays explore why religious themes proliferate in reality TV, audiences' fascination with "lived religion," and the economics that make religion and reality TV a successful pairing. Chapters also consider the role of race, gender, and religion in the production and reception of programming. Religion and Reality TV provides a framework for understanding the intersection of celebrity, media attention, beliefs, and values. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of religion and media studies, communication, American studies, and popular culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781138681286
• ISBN-10: 1138681288
• Artikelnr.: 51557419

Autorenporträt

Mara Einstein has worked as an executive at NBC, MTV Networks, and at major advertising agencies. She is Professor of Media Studies at Queens College, CUNY, USA and Director of the Masters program in Media and Social Justice. Katherine Madden teaches media studies at Jesuit High School in Sacramento, California, USA. Diane Winston holds the Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Maintenance of the self
1. Flaunting Christian patriarchy in the 21st century: Todd Chrisley's
straight guy with the queer eye
Diane Winston
2. Making over body and soul: gender, selfhood, and parables of
spiritual neoliberalism on Makeover TV
Brenda R. Weber
3. Black female sexual agency and racialized holy sex in black Christian
reality TV shows
Monique Moultrie
Part II: The performance of authenticity
4. "This is just an incredible God thing": monetized domesticity in
bottom-up media
Katherine Madden
5. "The renovation starts now!": rite-of-passage reality television
Erica Hurwitz Andrus
6. When the most popular format reaches the most atypical country:
reality TV and religion in Israel
Yoel Cohen and Amir Hetsroni
7. All-American cancellation: spectacle and neoliberal performativity in
All-American Muslim
Melinda Q. Brennan
Part III: Niche markets
8. Sister Wives: the Protestantization of Mormon polygamy
Myev Rees
9. Paranormal reality television: audience engagement with mediums and
spirit communication
Annette Hill
10. Conjuring spirits in a neoliberal era: ghost reality television,
Third Wave spiritual warfare, and haunting pasts
Sean McCloud
11. Amish reality and reality TV "Amishness": agonism in the cultural
marketplace
Stewart M. Hoover
Part IV: Commodification of the sacred
12. Praying for reality: the invisible hand in Downey and Burnett's
Answered Prayers
Sharon Lauricella
13. "The search for a young Imam begins now": Imam Muda and
civilizational Islam in Malaysia
Andrea Stanton
14. Preachers of Oxygen: franchising faith on reality TV
Mara Einstein