The politics of reality television : global perspectives / / edited by Marwan M. Kraidy and Katherine Sender.

• Superior document: Shaping inquiry in culture, communication and media studies
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Kraidy, Marwan, 1972-; Sender, Katherine.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Shaping inquiry in culture, communication and media studies.
• Physical Description: xi, 225 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Introduction : 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.