| Contents |
Introduction -- Trans-reality tv as a site of contingent reality / Sofie Van Bauwel and Nico Carpentier -- Trans-Reality. A short introduction to trans-reality / Sofie Van Bauwel -- The spectacle of the real and whatever other constructions / Sofie Van Bauwel -- On the media representation of reality : Peirce and Auerbach-two unlikely guests in the big brother house / Fernando Andacht -- Reality tv and reality of tv : How much reality is there in reality tv shows? a critical approach / Anastasia Deligiaouri and Mirkica Popovic -- Trans-professionalism undone? the 2007 British tv scandals / Matthew Hibberd -- Trans-Politics. A short introduction to trans-politics and the trans-political / Nico Carpentier -- Post-democracy, hegemony and invisible power : the reality tvmedia professional as primum movens immobile / Nico Carpentier -- Punitive reality tv : televizing punishment and the production of law and order/ Jan Pinseler -- After politics, what is left is the police : police videos and the neo-liberal order / Jan Teurlings -- Hijacking the branded self : reality tv and the politics of subversion / Winnie Salamon -- Trans-Genre. A short introduction to trans-genre / Sofie Van Bauwel -- Genre as discursive practice and the governmentality of formatting in post-documentary tv / Frank Boddin -- Trans-national reality tv : a comparative study of the UK's and Norway's Wife swap / Gunn Sara Enli and Brian McNair -- Trans-Audience. A short introduction to trans-audience / Nico Carpentier -- Trans-audiencehood of Big Brother : discourses of fans, producers and participants / Mikko Hautakangas -- Reality tv and "ordinary" people : re-visiting celebrity, performance and authenticity / Su Holmes -- Lifestyle tv : critical attitudes towards "banal" programming / Tanja Thomas -- Conclusion. The politics of the prefix : from "post" to "trans" (and back)? / Nico Carpentier and Sofie Van Bauwel. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010010241 |
| ISBN | 9780739131886 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0739131885 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780739131893 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0739131893 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
