Lexington Books
Pages: 340
Trim: 6⅜ x 9⅜
978-0-7391-3188-6 • Hardback • August 2010 • $147.00 • (£113.00)
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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 D Free University of Brussels).
Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Trans-reality TV as a site of contingent reality
Part 3 I: Trans-Reality
Chapter 4 1: A Short Introduction to Trans-Reality
Chapter 5 2: The Spectacle of the Real and Whatever Other Constructions
Chapter 6 3: On the Media Representation of Reality: Peirce and Auerbach-two Unlikely Guests in the Big Brother house
Chapter 7 4: Reality TV and Reality of TV. How Much Reality is there in Reality TV Shows? A Critical Approach.
Chapter 8 5: Trans-Professionalism Undone? The 2007 British TV Scandals
Part 9 II: Trans-Politics
Chapter 10 6: A Short Introduction to Trans-Politics and the Trans-Political
Chapter 11 7: Post-Democracy, Hegemony and Invisible Power. The Reality TV Media Professional as Primum Movens Immobile
Chapter 12 8: Punitive Reality TV. Televizing Punishment and the Production of Law and Order
Chapter 13 9: After Politics, What is Left is the Police. Police Videos and the Neo-Liberal Order
Chapter 14 10: Hijacking the Branded Self. Reality TV and the Politics of Subversion
Part 15 III: Trans-Genre
Chapter 16 11: A Short Introduction to Trans-Genre
Chapter 17 12: Genre as Discursive Practice and the Governmentality of Formatting in Post-Documentary TV
Chapter 18 13: Trans-National Reality TV. A Comparative Study of the UK's and Norway's Wife Swap
Part 19 IV: Trans-Audience
Chapter 20 14: A Short Introduction to Trans-Audience
Chapter 21 15: Trans-Audiencehood of Big Brother. Discourses of Fans, Producers and Participants
Chapter 22 16: Reality TV and "Ordinary" People. Re-visiting Celebrity, Performance and Authenticity
Chapter 23 17: Lifestyle TV. Critical attitudes towards "banal" programming
Chapter 24 18: The politics of the prefix. From "post" to "trans" (and back)?
Chapter 25 Index
27 About the Authors
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 provide an excellent encouragement towards further debate.
— John Corner, University of Leeds