Reality TV The Work of Being Watched

Name: Reality TV The Work of Being Watched
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ISBN: 9780742527485

ISBN-10: 0742527484

ISBN-13: 9780742527485

Edition: 2003

Authors: Mark Andrejevic

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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 interactive economy and to a savvy mistrust of mediated reality in general. Surveying several successful reality-TV formats, the book links the rehabilitation of Big Brother to the increasingly important economic role played by the work of being watched. The author enlists critical social theory to examine how the appeal of the real is deployed as a pervasive but false promise of democratization.

Book details

List price: $57.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/7/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.06" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Between the New Medium and the Old



The Promise of the Digital Revolution



Rediscovering Reality



The Kinder, Gentler Gaze of Big Brother



Access to the Real



It's All about the Experience



Reality TV and Voyeurism



Survivor and Uncanny Capitalism


Bibliography


Index


About the Author