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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Su Holmes; Deborah Jermyn |
| ISBN: | 0415317940 9780415317948 0415317959 9780415317955 |
| OCLC Number: | 53155685 |
| Description: | x, 302 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : understanding reality TV / Su Holmes, Deborah Jermyn -- Candid Camera and the origins of reality TV : contextualising a historical precedent / Bradley D. Clissold -- From Ozzie Nelson to Ozzy Osbourne : the genesis and development of the reality (star) sitcom / Jennifer Gillan -- 'This is about real people!' : video technologies, actuality and affect in the television crime appeal / Deborah Jermyn -- Reality TV, troublesome pictures and panics : reappraising the public controversy around reality TV in Europe / Daniel Biltereyst. "All you've got to worry about is the task, having a cup of tea, and doing a bit of sunbathing' : approaching celebrity in Big Brother / Su Holmes -- Temporalities of the real : conceptualising time in reality TV / Misha Kavka, Amy West -- In search of community on reality TV : America's Most Wanted and Survivor / Gray Cavender -- 'New you' : class and transformation in lifestyle television / Gareth Palmer -- Socially soothing stories? Gender, race and class in TLC's A Wedding Story and A Baby Story / Rebecca L. Stephens. Household, the basement and The Real World : gay identity in the constructed reality environment / Christopher Pullen -- 'It isn't always Shakespeare, but it's genuine' : cinema's commentary on documentary hybrids / Craig Hight -- Big Brother : reconfiguring the 'active' audience of cultural studies? / Estella Tincknell, Parvati Raghuram -- 'Jump in the pool' : the competitive culture of Survivor fan networks / Derek Foster. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Su Holmes and Deborah Jermyn. |
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