Understanding reality television
By: edited by Su Holmes and Deborah Jermyn.
Contributors: Holmes, Su.; Jermyn, Deborah, 1970-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Reality television programs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : understanding reality TV -- Su Holmes, Deborah Jermyn; title: Candid Camera and the origins of reality TV : contextualising a historical precedent -- Bradley D. Clissold; title: From Ozzie Nelson to Ozzy Osbourne : the genesis and development of the reality (star) sitcom -- Jennifer Gillan; title: 'This is about real people!' : video technologies, actuality and affect in the television crime appeal -- Deborah Jermyn; title: Reality TV, troublesome pictures and panics : reappraising the public controversy around reality TV in Europe -- Daniel Biltereyst.; title: "All you've got to worry about is the task, having a cup of tea, and doing a bit of sunbathing' : approaching celebrity in Big Brother -- Su Holmes; title: Temporalities of the real : conceptualising time in reality TV -- Misha Kavka, Amy West; title: In search of community on reality TV : America's Most Wanted and Survivor -- Gray Cavender; title: 'New you' : class and transformation in lifestyle television -- Gareth Palmer; title: Socially soothing stories? Gender, race and class in TLC's A Wedding Story and A Baby Story -- Rebecca L. Stephens.; title: Household, the basement and The Real World : gay identity in the constructed reality environment -- Christopher Pullen; title: 'It isn't always Shakespeare, but it's genuine' : cinema's commentary on documentary hybrids -- Craig Hight; title: Big Brother : reconfiguring the 'active' audience of cultural studies? -- Estella Tincknell, Parvati Raghuram; title: 'Jump in the pool' : the competitive culture of Survivor fan networks -- Derek Foster.