Reality TV
Misha Kavka
Is reality TV a coherent genre? This book addresses this question by examining the characteristics, contexts and breadth of reality TV through a history of its programming trends. Paying attention to stylistic connections as well as key concepts, this study breaks reality television down into three main 'generations': the camcorder generation, the competition generation and the celebrity generation. Beginning with a consideration of the applicability of the term 'genre' for this televisual hybrid, the book takes a transnational approach to investigating the forms and formats of reality TV framed by relevant popular and critical discourses.
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Year:
2012
Edition:
1
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
Language:
english
Pages:
200
ISBN 10:
0748637222
ISBN 13:
9780748637225
Series:
TV Genres
File:
PDF, 747 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2012