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9780742527485

Reality TV The Work of Being Watched

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  • ISBN13:

    9780742527485

  • ISBN10:

    0742527484

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-10-07
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

Drawing on cultural theory and interviews with fans, cast members, and producers, this book places the reality TV trend within a broader social context, tracing its relationship to the development of a digitally enhanced, surveillance-based interactive economy and to a savvy mistrust of mediated reality in general. Surveying several successful reality-TV formats, the book links the rehabilitation of Big Brother to the increasingly important economic role played by the work of being watched. The author enlists critical social theory to examine how the appeal of the real is deployed as a pervasive but false promise of democratization.

Author Biography

Mark Andrejevic is assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of lowa

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Between the New Medium and the Old
1(22)
The Promise of the Digital Revolution
23(38)
Rediscovering Reality
61(34)
The Kinder, Gentler Gaze of Big Brother
95(22)
Access to the Real
117(26)
It's All about the Experience
143(30)
Reality TV and Voyeurism
173(22)
Survivor and Uncanny Capitalism
195(34)
Bibliography 229(12)
Index 241(12)
About the Author 253

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