Big Brother international
Subtitle: formats, critics and publics
By: edited by Ernest Mathijs & Janet Jones.
Contributors: Mathijs, Ernest.; Jones, Janet, 1963-
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781904764182; 9781904764199
Subjects: Big Brother (Television program); Reality television programs.; Television -- Social aspects.; Television -- Psychological aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, Big Brother International / Ernest Mathijs and Janet Jones; title: Big Brother and its moral guardians : reappraising the role of intellectuals in the Big Brother panic / Danièel Biltereyst; title: Desire and resistance : Big Brother in the Dutch public sphere / Lisbet Van Zoonen; title: Watching Big Brother UK / Annette Hill; title: Who is the fairest of them all? : gendered readings of Big Brother UK / Daniel Chandler and Merris Griffiths; title: What viewer? : notions of "the audience" in the reception of Big Brother Belgium / Ernest Mathijs and Wouter Hessels; title: Debating Big Brother Belgium : framing popular media culture / Philippe Meers and Sofie Van Bauwel; title: Big Brother as television text : frames of interpretation and reception in Germany / Lothar Mikos; title: Loft story : Big Brother France and the migration of genes / Franðcois Jost.; title: Fight, love and tears : an analysis of the reception of Big Brother in Latin America / Fernando Andacht; title: Media monkeys : intertextuality, fandom and Big Brother Turkey / Bariðs Kiliðcbay and Mutlu Binark; title: Grande Fratello : interactions between tension and obscenity in Big Brother Italy / Marco Centorrino; title: Big Brother South Africa : a popular form of cultural expression / Magriet Pitout; title: Watching Big Brother at work : a production study of Big Brother Australia; title: Jamming Big Brother USA : webcasting, audience intervention and narrative activism / Pamela Wilson; title: Emerging platform identities : Big Brother UK and interactive multi-platform usage / Janet Jones; title: It's only a game show : Big Brother and the theatre of spontaneity / Jon Dovey; title: Epilogue, In front of our eyes : notes on Big Brother / Gary Carter.