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Informationen zum Autor Laurie Ouellette is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Minnesota, where she teaches Critical Media Studies. She has published extensively on reality television and is co-editor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture (2004 and 2009), and co-author of Better Living Through Reality TV: Television and Post-Welfare Citizenship (Wiley, 2008). Klappentext International in scope and more comprehensive than existing collections, A Companion to Reality Television presents a complete guide to the study of reality, factual and nonfiction television entertainment, encompassing a wide range of formats and incorporating cutting-edge work in critical, social and political theory.* Original in bringing cutting-edge work in critical, social and political theory into the conversation about reality TV* Consolidates the latest, broadest range of scholarship on the politics of reality television and its vexed relationship to culture, society, identity, democracy, and "ordinary people" in the media* Includes primetime reality entertainment as well as precursors such as daytime talk shows in the scope of discussion* Contributions from a list of international, leading scholars in this field Zusammenfassung International in scope and more comprehensive than existing collections, A Companion to Reality Television presents a complete guide to the study of reality, factual and nonfiction television entertainment, encompassing a wide range of formats and incorporating cutting-edge work in critical, social and political theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 Laurie Ouellette Part One Producing Reality: Industry, Labor, and Marketing 9 1 Mapping Commercialization in Reality Television 11 June Deery 2 Reality Television and the Political Economy of Amateurism 29 Andrew Ross 3 When Everyone Has Their Own Reality Show 40 Mark Andrejevic 4 Cast-aways: The Plights and Pleasures of Reality Casting and Production Studies 57 Vicki Mayer 5 Program Format Franchising in the Age of Reality Television 74 Albert Moran Part Two Television Realities: History, Genre, and Realism 95 6 Realism and Reality Formats 97 Jonathan Bignell 7 Reality TV Experiences: Audiences, Fact, and Fiction 116 Annette Hill 8 From Participatory Video to Reality Television 134 Daniel Marcus 9 Manufacturing "Massness": Aesthetic Form and Industry Practice in the Reality Television Contest 155 Hollis Griffin 10 God, Capitalism, and the Family Dog 171 Eileen R. Meehan Part Three Dilemmas of Visibility: Identity and Difference 189 11 The Bachelorette 's Postfeminist Therapy: Transforming Women for Love 191 Rachel E. Dubrofsky 12 Fractured Feminism: Articulations of Feminism, Sex, and Class by Reality TV Viewers 208 Andrea L. Press 13 "It's Been a While Since I've Seen, Like, Straight People": Queer Visibility in the Age of Postnetwork Reality Television 227 Joshua Gamson 14 The Wild Bunch: Men, Labor, and Reality Television 247 Gareth Palmer 15 The Conundrum of Race and Reality Television 264 Catherine R. Squires 16 Tan TV: Reality Television's Postracial Delusion 283 Hunter Hargraves Part Four Empowerment or Exploitation? Ordinary People and Reality Television 307 17 Reality Television and the Demotic Turn 309 Graeme Turner 18 DI(t)Y, Reality-Style: The Cultural Work of Ordinary Celebrity 324 Laura Grindstaff 19 Reality Television's Construction of Ordinary People: Class-Based and Nonelitist Articulations of Ordinary People an...
