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Reality TV
The Work of Being Watched
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2004
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.
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Copyright year
2004
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-2748-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-585-48290-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
253
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
1 Between the New Medium and the Old No access Pages 1 - 22
2 The Promise of the Digital Revolution No access Pages 23 - 60
3 Rediscovering Reality No access Pages 61 - 94
4 The Kinder, Gentler Gaze of Big Brother No access Pages 95 - 116
5 Access to the Real No access Pages 117 - 142
6 It's All about the Experience No access Pages 143 - 172
7 Reality TV and Voyeurism No access Pages 173 - 194
8 Survivor and Uncanny Capitalism No access Pages 195 - 228
Bibliography No access Pages 229 - 240
Index No access Pages 241 - 252
About the Author No access Pages 253 - 253
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