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The unremitting explosion of reality television across the schedules has become a sustainable global phemen generating considerable popular and political fervour. The zeal with which television executives seize on the easily replicated formats is matched equally by the eagerness of audiences to offer themselves up as television participants for others to watch and criticise. But how do we react to so many people breaking down, fronting up, tearing apart, dominating, empathising, humiliating, and seemingly laying bare their raw emotion for our entertainment? Do we feel sad when others are sad? Or are we relieved by the kwledge that our circumstances might be better? As reality television extends into the experiences of the everyday, it makes dramatic and often shocking the mundane aspects of our intimate relations, inviting us as viewers into a volatile arena of mediated morality. This book addresses the impact of this endless opening out of intimacy as an entertainment trend that erodes the traditional boundaries between spectator and performer demanding new tools for capturing television's relationships with audiences. Rather than asking how the reality television genre is interpreted as 'text' or representation the authors investigate the politics of viewer encounters as interventions, evocations, and more generally mediated social relations. The authors show how different reactions can involve viewers in tournaments of value, as women viewers empathise and struggle to validate their own lives. The authors use these detailed responses to challenge theories of the self, governmentality and ideology. A must read for both students and researchers in audience studies, television studies and media and communication studies.

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PublisherRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Ltd

ISBN-100415693713

ISBN-139780415693714

eBay Product ID (ePID)113791221

Product Key Features

Number of Pages254 Pages

Publication NameReacting to Reality TV Shows : Performance, Audience and Value

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2012

SubjectCommunication & Media

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science, Performing Arts

AuthorHelen Wood, Beverley Skeggs

FormatPaperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight7.1 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.3 in

Height234mm

Width156mm

Weight199g

Additional Product Features

Date of Publication28/03/2012

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

Place of PublicationLondon

Spine18mm

GenreCommunication & Media

Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom

Author BiographyHelen Wood is Reader in Media and Communication, in the Department of Media, Film and Journalism at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Beverley Skeggs is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She held the Kerstin Hesselgren Professor in Gender Studies at Stockholm University and is an Academician of the Academy of the Learned Societies for the Social Sciences, UK. She has worked in the areas of Women's Studies and Cultural Studies as well as Sociology.

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