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Jonathan Bignell presents a wide-ranging analysis of the television phenomenon of the early twenty-first century: Reality TV, exploring its cultural and political meanings, explaining the genesis of the form and its relationship to contemporary television production, and considering how it connects...

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Main Author: Bignell, Jonathan (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Subjects:
Cultural and Media Studies.
Film History.
Film and Television Studies.
Media Research.
Media Studies.
Social Theory.
Sociology of Culture.
Communication.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Mass media.
Motion pictures and television.
Motion pictures > History.
Religion and culture.
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Sociology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Jonathan Bignell presents a wide-ranging analysis of the television phenomenon of the early twenty-first century: Reality TV, exploring its cultural and political meanings, explaining the genesis of the form and its relationship to contemporary television production, and considering how it connects with, and breaks away from, factual and fictional conventions in television. Relationships with surveillance, celebrity and media culture are examined, leading to an appraisal of the directions that television culture is taking in the new century. His highly-readable style is accessible to readers at all levels of Culture and Media studies.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 189 pages)
ISBN:9780230508361
DOI:10.1057/9780230508361