TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kraidy,Marwan M.
AU  - Sender,Katherine
TI  - The politics of reality television: global perspectives 
T2  - Shaping inquiry in culture, communication and media studies
SN  - 9780415588256 (pbk.)
U1  - 791.4532 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Oxon, New York
PB  - Routledge / Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Reality television programs
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - BUEsh
KW  - COMAME
KW  - June2015
KW  - Reading book
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
; Real worlds : migrating genres, travelling participants, shifting theories / Katherine Sender -- Producing identity. Introduction / Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt -- Real-izing exploitation / Mark Andrejevic -- When reality TV is a job / Francois Jost -- Just be yourself -- only more so : ordinary celebrity in the era of self-service television / Laura Grindstaff -- Laboring the self. Introduction / Adrienne Shaw -- Governing bodies / Gareth Palmer -- Globalizing lifestyles? makeover television in Singapore / Tania Lewis -- Reacting to reality TV : the affective economy of an "extended social/public realm" / Helen Wood and Beverly Skeggs -- Performing the nation. Introduction / Oren Livio -- Commercial nationalism on Balkan reality television / Zala Volcic and Mark Andrejevic -- World citizens "a la Francaise : Star academy and the negotiations of "French" identities / Fabienne Darling-Wolf -- Reality television and the making of mobile publics : the case of Indian idol / Aswin Punathambekar -- Migrating economies. Introduction / Tara Liss-Marino -- New industry dynamics : lessons from reality TV in Norway / Yngvar Kjus -- -- Continental reality television and the expansion of South African capital / Sean Jacobs -- Making populations appear / Nick Couldry -- Reality television in new Worlds / Marwan Kraidy
N2  - While the industrial history of the global migrations of reality television is well established, there has been less consideration of the theoretical & methodological implications of this expansion. This book considers ways in which these migrations test our understanding of reality television across the globe
ER  -