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Beteiligte: Carpentier, Bauwel
veröffentlicht: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2010.
©2010.
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Umfang: 1 online resource (278 pages)
ISBN: 9780739131909
Ausgabe: 1st ed.
Sprache: Englisch
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Print version:: Carpentier, Trans-Reality Television, Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic,c2010
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Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Contents
Introduction
1 Trans-Reality TV as a Site of Contingent Reality
Part 1: Trans-Reality
2 A Short Introduction to Trans-Reality
3 The Spectacle of the Real and Whatever Other Constructions
4 On the Media Representation of Reality: Peirce and Auerbach-Two Unlikely Guests in the Big Brother House
5 Reality TV and Reality of TV: How Much Reality Is There in Reality TV Shows? A Critical Approach
6 Trans-Professionalism Undone? The 2007 British TV Scandals
Part 2: Trans-Politics
7 A Short Introduction to Trans-Politics and the Trans-Political
8 Post-Democracy, Hegemony, and Invisible Power: The Reality TV Media Professional as Primum Movens Immobile
9 Punitive Reality TV: Televizing Punishment and the Production of Law and Order
10 After Politics, What Is Left Is the Police: Police Videos and the Neo-Liberal Order
11 Hijacking the Branded Self: Reality TV and the Politics of Subversion
Part 3: Trans-Genre
12 A Short Introduction to Trans-Genre
13 Genre as Discursive Practice and the Governmentality of Formatting in Post-Documentary TV
14 Trans-National Reality TV: A Comparative Study of the U.K.'s and Norway's Wife Swap
Part 4: Trans-Audience
15 A Short Introduction to Trans-Audience
16 Trans-Audiencehood of Big Brother: Discourses of Fans, Producers, and Participants
17 Reality TV and "Ordinary" People: Re-visiting Celebrity, Performance, and Authenticity
18 Lifestyle TV: Critical Attitudes toward "Banal" Programming
Conclusion
19 The Politics of the Prefix: From "Post" to "Trans" (and Back)?
Index
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