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Trans-Reality Television
. Ed(S): Bauwel, Sofie Van; Carpentier, Nico
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Description for Trans-Reality Television
Hardback. Editor(s): Bauwel, Sofie van; Carpentier, Nico. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: JFDT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 644.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780739131886
SKU
V9780739131886
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About . Ed(S): Bauwel, Sofie Van; Carpentier, Nico
Sofie Van Bauwel is an assistant professor of communication studies at the University of Ghent (Belgium). Nico Carpentier is assistant professor of communication studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB – Free University of Brussels).
Reviews for Trans-Reality Television
This collection offers an energetic and illuminating range of explorations into what is involved in thinking about generic shifts and generic contexts. It does so in a period characterized both by radical transformations in the recipes and modes for mediating reality and by provocative questions about just what kind of datum points for representation 'reality' provides. The writings here will ... Read more