Politics of Reality Television

<p><em>The Politics of Reality Television</em> encompasses an international selection of expert contributions who consider the specific ways media migrations test our understanding of, and means of investigating, reality television across the globe. The book addresses a wide range of topics, including: </p><ul> <p> </p> <li>the global circulation and local adaptation of reality television formats and franchises</li> <p> </p> <li>the production of fame and celebrity around hitherto "ordinary" people</li> <p> </p> <li>the transformation of self under the public eye</li> <p> </p> <li>the tensions between fierce loyalties to local representatives and imagined communities bonding across regional and ethnic divides</li> <p> </p> <li>the struggle over the meanings and values of reality television across a range of national, regional, gender, class and religious contexts.</li> </ul><p>This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students on a range of Media and Television Studies courses, particularly those on the globalisation of television and media, and reality television.</p> <p>@contents: <strong>Selected Contents:</strong> Chapter 1. Introduction: Migrating Genres, Travelling Participants, Shifting Theories <em>Katherine</em> <em>Sender</em> <strong>PART 1: PRODUCING IDENTITY</strong> Introduction <em>Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt</em> Chapter 2. Real-izing Exploitation <em>Mark Andrejevic</em> Chapter 3. When Reality TV is a Job <em>Francois Jost</em> Chapter 4. Just Be Yourself – Only More So: Ordinary Celebrity in the Era of Self-Service Television <em>Laura Grindstaff</em> <strong>PART 2: LABORING THE SELF</strong> Introduction <em>Adrienne Shaw</em> Chapter 5. Governing Bodies <em>Gareth Palmer</em> Chapter 6. Globalizing Lifestyles? Makeover Television in Singapore <em>Tania Lewis</em> Chapter 7. Reacting to Reality TV: The affective economy of an "extended social/public realm" <em>Helen Wood and Beverly Skeggs</em> <strong>PART 3: PERFORMING THE NATION</strong> Introduction <em>Oren Livio</em> Chapter 8. Commercial Nationalism on Balkan Reality Television <em>Zala Volcic and Mark Andrejevic</em> Chapter 9. World Citizens ‘a la Française’: Star Academy and the Negotiations of ‘French’ Identities <em>Fabienne Darling-Wolf</em> Chapter 10. Reality Television and the Making of Mobile Publics: The Case of Indian Idol <em>Aswin Punathambekar</em> <strong>PART 4: MIGRATING ECONOMIES</strong> Introduction <em>Tara Liss-Marino</em> Chapter 11. New Industry Dynamics: Lessons From Reality TV in Norway <em>Yngvar Kjus</em> Chapter 12. Continental Reality Television and the Expansion of South African Capital <em>Sean Jacobs</em> Chapter 13. Making Populations Appear <em>Nick Couldry</em> Chapter 14. Reality Television in New Worlds <em>Marwan M. Kraidy</em></p>