A Companion to Reality Television - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0470659270 ISBN 13: 9780470659274

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 2014

Riassunto

International in scope and more comprehensive than existing collections, A Companion to Reality Television presents a complete guide to the study of reality, factual and nonfiction television entertainment, encompassing a wide range of formats and incorporating cutting-edge work in critical, social and political theory.

• Original in bringing cutting-edge work in critical, social and political theory into the conversation about reality TV
• Consolidates the latest, broadest range of scholarship on the politics of reality television and its vexed relationship to culture, society, identity, democracy, and “ordinary people” in the media
• Includes primetime reality entertainment as well as precursors such as daytime talk shows in the scope of discussion
• Contributions from a list of international, leading scholars in this field

Su questo libro

Recensione:

Laurie Ouellette has created an indispensable resource for those working in media studies, television studies, communication, and critical industry studies.  This is a lively and unique collection, including essays by so many and such diverse scholars who take reality television as a context for understanding broader cultural, economic and political conditions and questions about everyday life.  The reach of the book is expansive, beginning with industry and labor issues involved in producing reality television, ending with global politics and distribution, with smart, incisive analyses of histories, identity, affect, and subjectivities in between.  After several decades of reality television and scholarship that investigates it, this book offers a convincing, important, and timely contribution to the field. Sarah Banet–Weiser, University of Southern California, USA

L'autore:

Laurie Ouellette is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Minnesota, where she teaches Critical Media Studies. She has published extensively on reality television and is co-editor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture (2004 and 2009), and co-author of Better Living Through Reality TV: Television and Post-Welfare Citizenship (Wiley, 2008).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0470659270
• ISBN 13: 9780470659274
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 573
• Redattore: Ouellette Laurie