Trans-reality television
Subtitle: the transgression of reality, genre, politics, and audience
By: edited by Sofie Van Bauwel and Nico Carpentier.
Contributors: Van Bauwel, Sofie.; Carpentier, Nico.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780739131886; 9780739131893
Subjects: Reality television programs -- Social aspects; Reality television programs -- Political aspects
Description: ""This collection offers an energetic and illuminating range of explorations into what is involved in thinking about generic shifts and generic contexts. It does so in a period characterized both by radical transformations in the recipes and modes for mediating reality and by provocative questions about just what kind of datum points for representation 'reality' provides. The writings here will provide an excellent encouragement toward further debate."--John Corner. University of Leeds" "In Trans-Reality Television: The Transgression of Reality, Genre. Politics, and Audience, the contributors examine the phenomenon of reality television as a tool to reflect on societal and mediated transformations and transgressions. While some delve deep into the theoretical issues, others approach the topic at hand through empirical studies of specific reality television formats and programs. The chapters in this volume are divided into four sections, all of which deal with how we see the fluid social at work in reality television through the trans-real, trans-politics, trans-genre, and trans-audience. Stressing the concept of the trans-real, the first section explores the complex construction of reality in reality television. The second section, which deals with the concept of trans-politics, offers a diversity of perspectives on the articulation and rearticulation of politics and the political. The chapters comprising the third section analyze how the modern conceptualizations of genre and format are transcended. Finally, the last section articulates the concept of trans-audience, using case studies of particular audiences and a study of reality television celebrities. Trans-Reality Television concludes by returning to the sense and nonsense of the use of 'post' concepts."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Trans-reality tv as a site of contingent reality / Sofie Van Bauwel and Nico Carpentier; title: Trans-Reality. A short introduction to trans-reality / Sofie Van Bauwel; title: The spectacle of the real and whatever other constructions / Sofie Van Bauwel; title: On the media representation of reality : Peirce and Auerbach-two unlikely guests in the big brother house / Fernando Andacht; title: Reality tv and reality of tv : How much reality is there in reality tv shows? a critical approach / Anastasia Deligiaouri and Mirkica Popovic; title: Trans-professionalism undone? the 2007 British tv scandals / Matthew Hibberd; title: Trans-Politics. A short introduction to trans-politics and the trans-political / Nico Carpentier; title: Post-democracy, hegemony and invisible power : the reality tvmedia professional as primum movens immobile / Nico Carpentier; title: Punitive reality tv : televizing punishment and the production of law and order/ Jan Pinseler; title: After politics, what is left is the police : police videos and the neo-liberal order / Jan Teurlings; title: Hijacking the branded self : reality tv and the politics of subversion / Winnie Salamon; title: Trans-Genre. A short introduction to trans-genre / Sofie Van Bauwel; title: Genre as discursive practice and the governmentality of formatting in post-documentary tv / Frank Boddin; title: Trans-national reality tv : a comparative study of the UK's and Norway's Wife swap / Gunn Sara Enli and Brian McNair; title: Trans-Audience. A short introduction to trans-audience / Nico Carpentier; title: Trans-audiencehood of Big Brother : discourses of fans, producers and participants / Mikko Hautakangas; title: Reality tv and "ordinary" people : re-visiting celebrity, performance and authenticity / Su Holmes; title: Lifestyle tv : critical attitudes towards "banal" programming / Tanja Thomas; title: Conclusion. The politics of the prefix : from "post" to "trans" (and back)? / Nico Carpentier and Sofie Van Bauwel.