The politics of reality television
Subtitle: global perspectives
By: edited by Marwan M. Kraidy and Katherine Sender.
Contributors: Kraidy, Marwan, 1972-; Sender, Katherine.
Series: Shaping inquiry in culture, communication and media studies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780415588249; 9780415588256; 9780203843567
Subjects: Reality television programs -- Political aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : migrating genres, travelling participants, shifting theories / Katherine Sender; title: Producing identity. Introduction / Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt; title: Real-izing exploitation / Mark Andrejevic; title: When reality TV is a job / Francois Jost; title: Just be yourself; title: only more so : ordinary celebrity in the era of self-service television / Laura Grindstaff; title: Laboring the self. Introduction / Adrienne Shaw; title: Governing bodies / Gareth Palmer; title: Globalizing lifestyles? makeover television in Singapore / Tania Lewis; title: Reacting to reality TV : the affective economy of an "extended social/public realm" / Helen Wood and Beverly Skeggs; title: Performing the nation. Introduction / Oren Livio; title: Commercial nationalism on Balkan reality television / Zala Volcic and Mark Andrejevic; title: World citizens "a la Francaise : Star academy and the negotiations of "French" identities / Fabienne Darling-Wolf; title: Reality television and the making of mobile publics : the case of Indian idol / Aswin Punathambekar; title: Migrating economies. Introduction / Tara Liss-Marino; title: New industry dynamics : lessons from reality TV in Norway / Yngvar Kjus; title: Continental reality television and the expansion of South African capital / Sean Jacobs; title: Making populations appear / Nick Couldry; title: Reality television in new Worlds / Marwan Kraidy.