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>