Creating Reality in Factual Television

Creating Reality in Factual Television
Title Creating Reality in Factual Television PDF eBook
Author Manfred W. Becker
Publisher Routledge
Pages 152
Release 2020-10-07
Genre Social Science
ISBN 100020202X

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Creating Reality in Factual Television analyzes the uneasy interaction between economics, culture, and professional ethics in reality and documentary television storytelling. Through the "frankenbite," an editorial tool that extracts and re-orders the salient elements or single words of a statement, interview, or exchange into a revealing confession or argument, the book explores how and why editors manipulate truth in factual television. The author considers how the editing of documentary television is increasingly following reality television’s dictate to entertain instead of inform, how the "real" and the "truth" fall victim to the demand to "tell entertaining stories," and how editors must compromise their professional ethics as a result. Drawing on interviews with 75 North American and European editors that explore their experiences and opinions of reality and documentary television practices, and their views on their responsibilities and loyalties in the field, Creating Reality in Factual Television illuminates the real and potential ethical dilemmas of editorial decision making, the context in which decisions are made, and how editors themselves validate the editing choices to themselves and others. Addressing a dramatic development in contemporary media ecology – the age of "alternative facts" – this book is a useful research tool for scholars and students of documentary film, media literacy, genre studies, media ethics, affect theory, and audience perception.

Reality Television

Reality Television
Title Reality Television PDF eBook
Author Ruth A. Deller
Publisher Emerald Group Publishing
Pages 154
Release 2019-11-25
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1839090235

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Reality television is shown worldwide, features people from all walks of life and covers everything from romance to religion. It has not only changed television, but every other area of the media. So why has reality TV become such a huge phenomenon, and what is its future in an age of streaming and social media?

A Companion to Reality Television

A Companion to Reality Television
Title A Companion to Reality Television PDF eBook
Author Laurie Ouellette
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 598
Release 2016-12-19
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1119325196

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International in scope and more comprehensive than existing collections, A Companion to Reality Television presents a complete guide to the study of reality, factual and nonfiction television entertainment, encompassing a wide range of formats and incorporating cutting-edge work in critical, social and political theory. Original in bringing cutting-edge work in critical, social and political theory into the conversation about reality TV Consolidates the latest, broadest range of scholarship on the politics of reality television and its vexed relationship to culture, society, identity, democracy, and “ordinary people” in the media Includes primetime reality entertainment as well as precursors such as daytime talk shows in the scope of discussion Contributions from a list of international, leading scholars in this field

A Companion to Television

A Companion to Television
Title A Companion to Television PDF eBook
Author Janet Wasko
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 649
Release 2009-12-21
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 140519877X

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A Companion to Television is a magisterial collection of 31 original essays that charter the field of television studies over the past century Explores a diverse range of topics and theories that have led to television’s current incarnation, and predict its likely future Covers technology and aesthetics, television’s relationship to the state, televisual commerce; texts, representation, genre, internationalism, and audience reception and effects Essays are by an international group of first-rate scholars For information, news, and content from Blackwell's reference publishing program please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/reference/

Reality TV

Reality TV
Title Reality TV PDF eBook
Author Annette Hill
Publisher Psychology Press
Pages 246
Release 2005
Genre Electronic books
ISBN 9780415261524

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Drawing on quantitative and qualitative audience research to understand how viewers categorize the reality genre. From Animal Hospital to Big Brother, this book examines the voices of people who watch reality programmes.

Reality TV

Reality TV
Title Reality TV PDF eBook
Author Anita Biressi
Publisher Wallflower Press
Pages 198
Release 2005
Genre Art
ISBN 9781904764045

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"Through detailed case studies this book breaks new ground by linking together two major themes: the production of realism and its relationship to revelation. It addresses 'truth telling', confession and the production of knowledges about the self and its place in the world".--BOOKJACKET.

Reality TV

Reality TV
Title Reality TV PDF eBook
Author Annette Hill
Publisher Routledge
Pages 242
Release 2014-11-13
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1136177876

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Reality TV is popular entertainment. And yet a common way to start a conversation about it is ‘I wouldn’t want anyone to know this but...’ Why do people love and love to hate reality TV? This book explores reality TV in all its forms - from competitive talent shows to reality soaps - examining a range of programmes from the mundane to those that revel in the spectacle of excess. Annette Hill’s research draws on interviews with television producers on the market of reality TV and audience research with over fifteen thousand participants during a fifteen year period. Key themes in the book include the phenomenon of reality TV as a new kind of inter-generic space; the rise of reality entertainment formats and producer intervention; audiences, fans and anti-fans; the spectacle of reality and sports entertainment; and the ways real people and celebrities perform themselves in cross-media content. Reality TV explores how this form of popular entertainment invites audiences to riff on reality, to debate and reject reality claims, making it ideal for students of media and cultural studies seeking a broader understanding of how media connects with trends in society and culture.