Häftad, Engelska, 2008

Better Living through Reality TV

Television and Post-Welfare Citizenship

Av Laurie Ouellette, James Hay

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Combining cutting-edge theories of culture and government with programming examples—including Todd TV, Survivor, and American Idol—Better Living through Reality TV moves beyond the established concerns of political economy and cultural studies to conceptualize television's evolving role in the contemporary period. A major textbook on the impact of reality and lifestyle television on today’s programming, and on broader social, cultural and political trendsDraws on a range of examples from The Apprentice and American Idol to Extreme Makeover and Wife SwapArgues that reality television teaches viewers to monitor, motivate, improve, transform and protect themselves in the name of freedom, enterprise, and personal responsibility

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2008-01-08
Mått: 153 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt: 381 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 264
Förlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN: 9781405134415

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Laurie Ouellette is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is co-editor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture and author of Viewers Like You? How Public TV Failed the People.James Hay is an Associate Professor in the College of Communication at the University of Illinois--Champaign-Urbana. He is a co-editor of The Audience and Its Landscape.

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"Better Living through Reality TV achieves what cultural theory does at its best: a fascinating, insightful, and clear-eyed look at contemporary society as seen through the lens of pop culture."--Mark Andrejevic"With this book, reality TV finally 'gets real'."--Nick Couldry

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