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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 A Companion to Reality Television presents a comprehensive guide to the study of reality, factual and nonfiction entertainment television. Broader in scope and scale than existing collections, the Companion encompasses major primetime entertainment formats, including talent competitions, makeovers, dating programs, reality soap operas and social experiments; it also covers lifestyle/how-to programming, game shows and talk shows featuring "ordinary" people, and online initiatives that evoke the shifting boundaries of producer versus consumer, content versus advertising, and ordinary versus celebrity. International in scope, the Companion synthesizes and intervenes within important theories, debates and issues, and traces and explains the social, historical, political, commercial, ethical, and creative dimensions of reality/factual/non-fiction television entertainment. It also analyzes the production, conventions and reception of major formats, and situates reality television as a global and local phenomenon, identifying and commenting upon emergent trends. Leading scholars in the intersecting fields of media studies, television studies, cinema studies, and cultural studies provide theoretical depth and clarity on the history of nonfiction and reality television, forge links to important scholarly debates, and analyze the politics of reality entertainment worldwide. 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 ...
