Reality TV : The Work of Being Watched
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0742527484
ISBN-13
9780742527485
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 7th, 2003
Print length
264 Pages
Weight
384 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.40 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
TelevisionMedia studies
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Drawing on cultural theory and interviews with fans, cast members and producers, this book places the reality TV trend within a broader social context.
Drawing on cultural theory and interviews with fans, cast members and producers, this book places the reality TV trend within a broader social context, tracing its relationship to the development of a digitally enhanced, surveillance-based interactive economy and to a savvy mistrust of mediated reality in general. Surveying several successful reality TV formats, the book links the rehabilitation of ''Big Brother'' to the increasingly important economic role played by the work of being watched. The author enlists critical social theory to examine how the appeal of ''the real'' is deployed as a pervasive but false promise of democratization.
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