Описание: Extraordinarily Ordinary offers a critical analysis of the production of a distinct form of twenty-first century celebrity constructed through the exploding coverage of reality television cast members in Us Weekly magazine. Erin A. Meyers connects the economic and industrial forces that helped propel Us Weekly to the top of the celebrity gossip market in the early 2000s with the ways in which reality television cast members fit neatly into the social and cultural norms that shaped the successful gossip formulas of the magazine. Us Weekly's construction of the "extraordinarily ordinary" celebrity within its gossip narratives is a significant symptom of the broader intensification of discourses of ordinariness and the private in the production of contemporary celebrity, in which fame is paradoxically grounded in "just being yourself" while simultaneously defining what the "right" sort of self is in contemporary culture.
Название: Fantasy of reality ISBN: 1433130483 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433130489 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 6514.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: With over twenty different casts, multiple spin-off series, and five international locations, The Real Housewives franchise is a television phenomenon. The women on these shows have reinvented the soap opera diva and in doing so, have offered television viewers a new opportunity to embrace a loved, yet waning, genre. As the popularity and prevalence of the docu-drama genre of reality TV continues to increase, the time is ripe for a collection of this sort. The Fantasy of Reality: Critical Essays on‘The Real Housewives’ explores the series and the women of The Real Housewives through the lens of race, class, gender, sexuality, and place. The contributing authors use an expansive and impressive array of methodological approaches to examine particular aspects of the series, offering rich analysis and insight along the way. This collection takes seriously what some may mock and others adore. Chapters are both fun and informative, lending themselves well to Housewives fans and media scholars alike.
Описание: In The Drama of Reality Television: Lives of Youth in Liquid Modern Times, the author offers a glimpse into the lives, viewing habits, and opinions of today’s Generation Z. While reality television is quite often viewed as just a guilty pleasure, the conversations that the author had with young people show that reality television is a major pedagogical force in the lives of young viewers. This is compounded by our current liquid modern time period; a time in which everything is fluid, there are no solid bonds and people are disposable. The author shares the incredible conversations that she had with seven honest, insightful pre-teenagers to give us a deeper understanding of the ways in which just a ‘guilty pleasure’ is working to deeply impact the lives of young people.
Описание: This is the first book to examine the discourse of reality television. Chapters provide rigorous case studies of the discourse practices that characterise a wide range of generic and linguistic/cultural contexts, including dating shows in China and Spain, docudramas in Argentina and New Zealand, and talent shows in the UK and USA.
Описание: The book focuses on 2 aspects of human performance theory, reaction processes and attention. These apsects are often ignored by treatments of cognitive psychology but are central to understanding an individual`s performance.
Описание: Originally published in 1991, this introduction to studying the television audience discusses developments in semiology and cultural studies and their contribution to our understanding of the power of television. How, in the most precise and intricate sense, does television influence the way we think about the world? What ideological role does it play in contemporary culture? Does TV control us or do we control it? This insightful book assesses the progress in responding to these questions and offers some answers of its own. In the 1980s, with the emergence of semiology and cultural studies in particular, there were a number of significant theoretical developments in our understanding of television's power of which this book provides an overview while also incorporating traditional approaches. It suggests that television influences us ambiguously and unpredictably, depending upon who we are and how we think. Ambiguity does not blunt television's power, it simply diversifies it into a very modern kind of omnipotence. Employing two major qualitative audience studies, this impressive study illustrates its argument with findings that are both unexpected and disturbing.
Автор: Yanich Danilo Название: Buying Reality: Political Ads, Money, and Local Television News ISBN: 0823288951 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780823288953 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 17305.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Everything you were thinking about political ads on local television is probably wrong. Even in this digital age, political ads were big business in 2016, especially in battleground states. But there were stark differences in how the Presidential and Down Ballot races appeared on local TV news.
In the presidential race, the losing candidate bought 75% of the political ads, while the winner reaped the benefit of $5 billion in coverage for which he did not pay. Trump's tweets were irresistible to the television networks as he made one over-the-top statement after another. It was an unprecedented campaign. Even he was surprised by it. But, if we look at the Down Ballot (DB) races--the races for the U.S House of Representatives and the Senate, the campaign was very much business as usual. DB candidates did not enjoy the name recognition and celebrity of the Presidential contenders. They relied on political ads on local TV newscasts, not tweets, to convey their messages. So, what happened? First, two-thirds of the political ads on local TV were directed at the Down Ballot, rather than the Presidential, campaign. So, on local TV news, political ads created the reality of local races--a reality that was not meant to inform voters, but to persuade them--perfectly acceptable. That makes the second point all the more crucial--local television news reporting virtually ignored the Down Ballot. Almost 90% of their political stories focused on the Presidential race. Even then, the stories did not critically examine the campaigns and political ads outnumbered political stories by 22 to 1. As a result, voters were left to their own devices to fill in the space--the bought reality--between what the ads said was real and what the political stories covered. The 2020 campaign will very likely be the same.
Автор: Fox, Ragan (california State University, Long Beach) Название: Inside reality tv ISBN: 1138065579 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138065574 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5970.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Offering a rare, autobigographical, and behind-the-scenes peek behind Big Brother`s curtain, Fox provides a scholarly account of the show`s casting procedures, secret soundstage interactions, and viewer involvement.
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