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Title: |
Reality Television -- Merging the Global & the Local |
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| Edited by: |
Amir Hetsroni |
| ISBN10-13: |
1616683155 : 9781616683153 |
| Illustrations: |
tables |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
180x260mm |
| Pages: |
296 |
| Weight: |
.714 Kg. |
| Published: |
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US) - May 2011 |
| List Price: |
185.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
| Subjects: |
Media studies |
| Reality television has become a world-wide phenomenon which has the capability to crossover cultural boundaries and appeal to distinctly different markets. Drawing theories from media studies, economics, cultural studies and social science, this book reviews how reality TV has conquered the world and has the potential to remove successful dramatic genres from the prime-time line-up. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Introduction; Do you Know Who Your Friends Are? An Analysis of Voting Patterns & Alliances on the Reality Television Show Survivor; Reality Television & Computer-Mediated Identity: Offline Exposure & Online Behavior; You'll See, You'll Watch: The Success of Big Brother in Post-Communist Bulgaria; Gok Wan & the Magical Wardrobe; Slovene Reality Television: The Commercial Re-inscription of the National; Talking about Big Brother: Interpersonal Communication about a Controversial Television Format; Reality vs. Reality TV: News Coverage in Israeli Media at the Time of Reality TV; Real Love Has No Boundaries? Dating Reality TV Shows between Global Format & Local-Cultural Conflicts; The Seal of Culture in Format Adaptations: Singing for a Dream on Turkish Television; The Praise & the Critique of a Nasty Format: An Analysis of the Public Discourse concerning Reality TV in Israel; Performing the Nation: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Idol Shows in Four Countries; Mobile Makeovers: Global & Local Lifestyles & Identities in Reality Formats; From Reality TV to Coaching TV: Elements of Theory & Empirical Findings towards Understanding the Genre; Reality Nations: An International Comparison of the Historical Reality Genre; Index. |
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