Reality TV : The Work of Being Watched

Name: Reality TV
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
SKU: 9780742527485
Price: 8100 KES
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ISBN: 9780742527485

by Mark Andrejevic

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture

ISBN-10 0742527484

ISBN-13 9780742527485

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Imprint Rowman & Littlefield

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: Television Television Media studies Media 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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