'BIG BROTHER' - The 'Reality Show' as a Globalized 'Post- Documentary' Form

In this book I am attempting to scrutinise the Big Brother show (Endemol 1999) - the archetype of the 'reality show' genre (Cummings D 2002 xii) - as a cultural product of our 'post-modern-late capitalism' era (Jameson F 1993 xii). In specific I am focusing on its function as a pop- culture globalised 'post-documentary' form that on the one hand reflects our era's 'post-modern' dimension and through the space-time processes decontextualises space (geography) and time (history) and thus distorts our sense of the 'real' and transcends the cultural borders; while on the other hand reflects our era's 'late- capitalism' dimension and thus the western capitalistic spaces (pop-) cultural symbols and social dynamics. Therefore Big Brother enhances the globalisation process in the form of westernisation.