Trans-Reality Television

The Transgression of Reality, Genre, Politics, and Audience
Herausgeber: Bauwel, Sofie van; Carpentier, Nico

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Produktbeschreibung

Trans-Reality Television offers an overview of contributions which engage with the phenomenon of reality television as a tool to reflect on societal and mediated transformations and transgressions. The chapters in this volume are divided into four sections, all of which deal with how we see the fluid social at work in reality television through the trans-real, trans-politics, trans-genre, and trans-audience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9780739131893
• ISBN-10: 0739131893
• Artikelnr.: 29750030

Autorenporträt

Sofie Van Bauwel is an assistant professor of communication studies at the University of Ghent (Belgium). Nico Carpentier is assistant professor of communication studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB D Free University of Brussels).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Trans-reality TV as a site of contingent
reality Part 3 I: Trans-Reality Chapter 4 1: A Short Introduction to
Trans-Reality Chapter 5 2: The Spectacle of the Real and Whatever Other
Constructions Chapter 6 3: On the Media Representation of Reality: Peirce
and Auerbach-two Unlikely Guests in the Big Brother house Chapter 7 4:
Reality TV and Reality of TV. How Much Reality is there in Reality TV
Shows? A Critical Approach. Chapter 8 5: Trans-Professionalism Undone? The
2007 British TV Scandals Part 9 II: Trans-Politics Chapter 10 6: A Short
Introduction to Trans-Politics and the Trans-Political Chapter 11 7:
Post-Democracy, Hegemony and Invisible Power. The Reality TV Media
Professional as Primum Movens Immobile Chapter 12 8: Punitive Reality TV.
Televizing Punishment and the Production of Law and Order Chapter 13 9:
After Politics, What is Left is the Police. Police Videos and the
Neo-Liberal Order Chapter 14 10: Hijacking the Branded Self. Reality TV and
the Politics of Subversion Part 15 III: Trans-Genre Chapter 16 11: A Short
Introduction to Trans-Genre Chapter 17 12: Genre as Discursive Practice and
the Governmentality of Formatting in Post-Documentary TV Chapter 18 13:
Trans-National Reality TV. A Comparative Study of the UK's and Norway's
Wife Swap Part 19 IV: Trans-Audience Chapter 20 14: A Short Introduction to
Trans-Audience Chapter 21 15: Trans-Audiencehood of Big Brother. Discourses
of Fans, Producers and Participants Chapter 22 16: Reality TV and
"Ordinary" People. Re-visiting Celebrity, Performance and Authenticity
Chapter 23 17: Lifestyle TV. Critical attitudes towards "banal" programming
Chapter 24 18: The politics of the prefix. From "post" to "trans" (and
back)? Chapter 25 Index 27 About the Authors