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: 4. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 707g
• ISBN-13: 9780739131886
• ISBN-10: 0739131885
• Artikelnr.: 29612129

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 - 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