The politics of reality television [electronic resource] : global perspectives / edited by Marwan M. Kraidy and Katherine Sender.

While the industrial history of the global migrations of reality television is well established, there has been less consideration of the theoretical & methodological implications of this expansion. This book considers ways in which these migrations test our understanding of reality television acros...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Shaping inquiry in culture, communication and media studies.
Other Authors: Kraidy, Marwan M., 1972-
Sender, Katherine
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Series:Shaping inquiry in culture, communication and media studies.
Subjects:
Reality television programs > Political aspects.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2010 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
Variant Title:
The Politics of Reality Television: Global Perspectives
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Real worlds : migrating genres, travelling participants, shifting theories / Katherine Sender
  • Producing identity. Introduction / Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt
  • Real-izing exploitation / Mark Andrejevic
  • When reality TV is a job / Francois Jost
  • Just be yourself
  • only more so : ordinary celebrity in the era of self-service television / Laura Grindstaff
  • Laboring the self. Introduction / Adrienne Shaw
  • Governing bodies / Gareth Palmer
  • Globalizing lifestyles? makeover television in Singapore / Tania Lewis
  • Reacting to reality TV : the affective economy of an "extended social/public realm" / Helen Wood and Beverly Skeggs
  • Performing the nation. Introduction / Oren Livio
  • Commercial nationalism on Balkan reality television / Zala Volcic and Mark Andrejevic
  • World citizens "a la Francaise : Star academy and the negotiations of "French" identities / Fabienne Darling-Wolf
  • Reality television and the making of mobile publics : the case of Indian idol / Aswin Punathambekar
  • Migrating economies. Introduction / Tara Liss-Marino
  • New industry dynamics : lessons from reality TV in Norway / Yngvar Kjus
  • Continental reality television and the expansion of South African capital / Sean Jacobs
  • Making populations appear / Nick Couldry
  • Reality television in new Worlds / Marwan Kraidy.