The Politics of Reality Television: Global Perspectives - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0415588251 ISBN 13: 9780415588256

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2010

Riassunto

The Politics of Reality Television encompasses an international selection of expert contributions who consider the specific ways media migrations test our understanding of, and means of investigating, reality television across the globe. The book addresses a wide range of topics, including:

• the global circulation and local adaptation of reality television formats and franchises
• the production of fame and celebrity around hitherto "ordinary" people
• the transformation of self under the public eye
• the tensions between fierce loyalties to local representatives and imagined communities bonding across regional and ethnic divides
• the struggle over the meanings and values of reality television across a range of national, regional, gender, class and religious contexts.

This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students on a range of Media and Television Studies courses, particularly those on the globalisation of television and media, and reality television.

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Recensione:

Exemplifying the vibrant scholarship on reality television, this collection tests the field's first generation of theory and initiates cross-cultural analysis of this globally pervasive television genre. Summing Up: Recommended.
-- CHOICE, September 2011 (R. W. Morrow, Morgan State University)

L'autore:

Marwan M. Kraidy is Associate Professor of Global Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life (2009) and Hybridity, or, The Cultural Logic of Globalization (2005).

Katherine Sender is Associate Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include Business not Politics: The Making of the Gay Market (2004) and Makeover Television and its Audiences (forthcoming).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0415588251
• ISBN 13: 9780415588256
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 240
• Redattore: Kraidy Marwan M.