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9780739131893

Trans-Reality Television The Transgression of Reality, Genre, Politics, and Audience

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    9780739131893

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    0739131893

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-08-04
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
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Summary

Trans-Reality Television: The Transgression of Reality, Genre, Politics, and Audience offers an overview of contributions which engage with the phenomenon of reality television as a tool to reflect on societal and mediated transformations and transgressions. While some contributors 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. The first section stresses the concept of the trans-real. These chapters go into the complexity of the 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 re-articulation of politics and the political. In the third section, trans-genre, the chapters analyze how the modern conceptualizations of genre and format are transcended. Finally, the last set of chapters articulate the concept of trans-audiences, using case studies of particular audiences and a study of reality celebrities. Trans-Reality Television concludes by returning to the sense and nonsense of the use of these 'post' concepts.

Author Biography

Sofie Van Bauwel is assistant professor of communication studies at the University of Ghent in Belgium. Nico Carpentier is assistant professor of communication studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University of Brussels) in Belgium.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Trans-Reality TV as a Site of Contingent Realityp. 1
Trans-Reality
A Short Introduction to Trans-Realityp. 21
The Spectacle of the Real and Whatever Other Constructionsp. 23
On the Media Representation of Reality: Peirce and Auerbach-Two Unlikely Guests in the Big Brother Housep. 37
Reality TV and Reality of TV: How Much Reality Is There in Reality TV Shows? A Critical Approachp. 65
Trans-Professionalism Undone? The 2007 British TV Scandalsp. 87
Trans-Politics
A Short Introduction to Trans-Politics and the Trans-Politicalp. 103
Post-Democracy, Hegemony, and Invisible Power: The Reality TV Media Professional as Primum Movens Immobilep. 105
Punitive Reality TV: Televizing Punishment and the Production of Law and Orderp. 125
After Politics, What Is Left Is the Police: Police Videos and the Neo-Liberal Orderp. 149
Hijacking the Branded Self: Reality TV and the Politics of Subversionp. 163
Trans-Genre
A Short Introduction to Trans-Genrep. 181
Genre as Discursive Practice and the Governmentality of Formatting in Post-Documentary TVp. 183
Trans-National Reality TV: A Comparative Study of the U.K.'s and Norway's Wife Swapp. 205
Trans-Audience
A Short Introduction to Trans-Audiencep. 227
Trans-Audiencehood of Big Brother: Discourses of Fans, Producers, and Participantsp. 229
Reality TV and "Ordinary" People: Re-visiting Celebrity, Performance, and Authenticityp. 251
Lifestyle TV: Critical Attitudes toward "Banal" Programmingp. 275
Conclusion
The Politics of the Prefix: From "Post" to "Trans" (and Back)?p. 297
Indexp. 317
About the Authorsp. 329
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