Reality TV Factual Entertainment and Television Audiences

Name: Reality TV Factual Entertainment and Television Audiences
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ISBN: 9780415261524

ISBN-10: 041526152X

ISBN-13: 9780415261524

Edition: 2005

Authors: Annette Hill

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What is the purpose of reality television? Does it provide information and education to the audience, or are the program makers simply exploiting real people's lives for the purposes of entertainment? Can we rely on documentaries to follow the ethics of programme making in terms of truth and accuracy? Real TVoffers a wide-ranging, international, contemporary investigation into the field of factual entertainment, combining historical, theoretical, economic, aesthetic and empirical approaches. The book also provides a sustained investigation into ethical issues and public interest in order to show that such concepts are integral to an understanding of the development of factual entertainment.…

Book details

List price: $46.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 1/10/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 7.13" wide x 9.33" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Acknowledgements



Understanding reality TV



The rise of reality TV



The reality genre



Performance and authenticity



The idea of learning



Ethics of care



Pet deaths



Story of change


Appendices


Notes


Bibliography