Reality television
Subtitle: merging the global and the local
By: Amir Hetsroni [editor]
Publisher: Nova Science Publisher's, Inc.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hauppauge, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781621000686
Subjects: Social aspects; Reality television programs; Political aspects; Television and globalization; Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: North America. Do you know who your friends are? an analysis of voting patterns and alliances on the reality television show survivor / Erich M. Hayes and Norah E. Dunbar; title: Reality television and computer-mediated identity: offline exposure and online behavior / Michael A. Stefanone, Derek Lackaff, and Devan Rosen; title: Europe. You'll see, you'll watch: the success of big brother in post-Communist Bulgaria / Maria Raicheva-Stover; title: Gok Wan and the magical wardrobe  / Gareth Palmer; title: Slovene reality television: the commercial re-inscription of the national / Zala Volcic and Mark Andrejevic; title: Talking about Big Brother: interpersonal communication about a controversial television format / Helena Bilandzic and Matthias R. Hastall; title: The Middle East. Reality vs. reality TV: News coverage in Israeli media at the time of reality TV / Dror Abend-David; title: Real love has no boundaries? dating reality TV shows between global format and local-cultural conflicts / Motti Neiger; title: The seal of culture in format adaptations: singing for a dream on Turkish television / Sevilay Celenk; title: The praise and the critique of a nasty format: an analysis of the public discourse concerning reality TV in Israel / Amir Hetsroni; title: Cross-cultural studies. Performing the nation: a cross-cultural comparison of Idol shows in four countries / Oren Livio; title: Mobile makeovers: global and local lifestyles and identities in reality formats / Tania Lewis; title: From feality TV to coaching TV: elements of theory and empirical findings towards understanding the genre / Jürgen Grimm; title: Reality nations: an international comparison of the historical reality genre / Emily West.