A Companion to Reality Television
Edited by Laurie Ouellette 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.
John Wiley & Sons, Hardcover with protectice cover, english, 573 pages