Reality TV

  • Reality TV: Realism and Revelation
    By Anita Biressi, Heather Nunn

    Morris leaves no doubt that Leuchter's forensic 'evidence' that the bricks at Auschwitz contain no traces of cyanide gas was amateur claptrap without scientific or historical merit. His lack of historical insight and depth of response ...

  • Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture
    By Susan Murray, Laurie Ouellette

    A collection of essays, which provide a comprehensive picture of how and why the genre of reality television emerged, what it means, how it differs from earlier television programming, and how it engages societies, industries, and ...

  • Reality TV
    By Annette Hill

    And yet a common way to start a conversation about it is ‘I wouldn’t want anyone to know this but...’ Why do people love and love to hate reality TV? This book explores reality TV in all its forms - from competitive talent shows to ...

  • Reality TV: Realism and Revelation
    By Anita Biressi, Heather Nunn

    "Through detailed case studies this book breaks new ground by linking together two major themes: the production of realism and its relationship to revelation.

  • Reality TV
    By Jon Kraszewski

    Jon Kraszewski offers the first extended account of this phenomenon, as he makes the politics of urban space the center of his history and theory of reality television.

  • Reality TV
    By Annette Hill

    And yet a common way to start a conversation about it is ‘I wouldn’t want anyone to know this but...’ Why do people love and love to hate reality TV? This book explores reality TV in all its forms - from competitive talent shows to ...

  • Reality TV
    By Misha Kavka

    This book is a study of the 'Reality TV' format which, in less than a decade, has transformed network programming schedules, branded satellite and digital stations, become a favourite target for anti-television campaigners, and turned ...

  • Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture
    By Susan Murray, Laurie Ouellette

    Scholars explore this not-so-recent tv trend.

  • Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture
    By Susan Murray, Laurie Ouellette

    Both Survivor and the NCAA have a Final Four, the basketball variant admitting 2^3 = 8 possible outcomes, and the Survivor variant ... Butler, Television, 64; Barthes, Pleasure of the Text, 11; and Burnett, Survivor: The Ultimate ...

  • Reality TV
    By June Deery

    RTV has also inspired dramas and novels, such as Shields, G. (2006) The Actual Real Reality of Jennifer James: A Reality TVNovel. HarperTeen, New York. 15. Good overviews of RTV scholarship can be found in introductory chapters by, ...

  • Reality TV: An Insider's Guide to TV's Hottest Market
    By Troy DeVolld

    Reality TV: An Insider's Guide to TV's Hottest Market is a no-nonsense read that doesn't sugarcoat the realities of the process or the ethical gut-checks that writers and producers often experience in trying to deliver an engaging end ...

  • Reality TV
    By Misha Kavka

    Is reality TV a coherent genre? This book addresses this question by examining the characteristics, contexts and breadth of reality TV through a history of its programming trends.

  • Reality TV: Audiences and Popular Factual Television
    By Annette Hill

    Annette Hill discusses a wide range of reality television shows, drawing on research among reality TV viewers to consider how different audience groups think about factual television, and whether they consider such programmes to be ...

  • Reality TV: How Real is Real?
    By Dolan Cummings

    Over the last few years, Reality TV has established itself as a major television genre. This is TV about real people, and for real people. But how valid is the claim that these programmes tell us the truth about our lives?

  • Reality TV
    By June Deery

    Reality TV has changed television and changed reality, even if we are not among the millions who watch.

  • Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched
    By Mark Andrejevic

    Drawing on cultural theory and interviews with fans, cast members and producers, this book places the reality TV trend within a broader social context, tracing its relationship to the development of a digitally enhanced, surveillance-based ...

  • Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture
    By Susan Murray, Laurie Ouellette

    ... Film/Genre (London: British Film Institute, 1999), 190. 9. As John Thornton Caldwell points out, despite periodic innovations in content, the situation comedy is, stylistically, arguably the most stable genre in American television ...

  • Reality TV: Audiences and Popular Factual Television
    By Annette Hill

    ... Media , Culture and Society , 22 : 681-8 . Corner , John ( 2001a ) ' Documentary Realism ' , in G. Creeber ( ed . ) The Television Genre Book , London : British Film ... Reality Squared : Televisual Discourse on the Real , New Brunswick , NJ ...