UNDERSTANDING REALITY TELEVISION

by Holmes; Su

• ISBN13: 9780415317955
• ISBN10: 0415317959
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-02-23
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

covered include surveillance, the construction of celebrity, temporality in Reality TV, the politics of representation (with case studies considering the construction of community, women, gay identity and "class"), and audience responses and fandom.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	x
Introduction: understanding Reality TV	1	(210)
SU HOLMES AND DEBORAH JERMYN
1 Candid Camera and the origins of Reality TV: contextualising a historical precedent	33	(21)
BRADLEY D. CLISSOLD
2 From Ozzie Nelson to Ozzy Osbourne: the genesis and development of the Reality (star) sitcom	54	(17)
JENNIFER GILLAN
3 'This is about real people!': video technologies, actuality and affect in the television crime appeal	71	(20)
DEBORAH JERMYN
4 Reality TV, troublesome pictures and panics: reappraising the public controversy around Reality TV in Europe	91	(20)
DANIEL BILTEREYST
5 'All you've got to worry about is the task, having a cup of tea, and doing a bit of sunbathing': approaching celebrity in Big Brother	111	(25)
SU HOLMES
6 Temporalities of the real: conceptualising time in Reality TV	136	(18)
MISHA KAVKA AND AMY WEST
7 In search of community on Reality TV: America's Most Wanted and Survivor	154	(19)
GRAY LAVENDER
8 'The New You': class and transformation in lifestyle television	173	(18)
GARETH PALMER
9 Socially soothing stories? Gender, race and class in TLC's A Wedding Story and A Baby Story	191	(20)
REBECCA L. STEPHENS
10 The household, the basement and The Real World: gay identity in the constructed reality environment	211	(22)
CHRISTOPHER PULLEN
11 'It isn't always Shakespeare, but It's genuine': cinema's commentary on documentary hybrids	233	(19)
CRAIG HIGHT
12 Big Brother: reconfiguring the 'active' audience of cultural studies?	252	(18)
ESTELLA TINCKNELL AND PARVATI RAGHURAM
13 'Jump in the pool': the competitive culture of Survivor fan networks	270	(20)
DEREK FOSTER
14 Afterword: framing the new	290	(10)
JOHN CORNER
Index	300