Reality squared : televisual discourse on the real /

Reality squared : televisual discourse on the real / edited by James Friedman - New Brunswick : Rutgers University, [2002] - x,336 p. : ill. ; 25cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Acting live: TV performance, intimacy, and immediacy (1945-1955) / Rhona J. Berenstein -- "Johnny Yuma was a rebel; he roamed through the west": television, race, and the "real" west / Alan Nadel -- Daytime politics: Kefauver, McCarthy, and the American housewife / Kristen Hatch -- "Happy new year and Auld lang syne": on televisual montage and historical consequences / Vivian Sobchack -- Reality TV in the digital era: a paradox in visual culture? / Arild Fetveit -- Attraction to distraction: live television and the public sphere / James Friedman -- Cyborgs in cyberspace: white pride, pedophilic pornography, and Donna Haraway's manifesto / Daniel Bernardi -- Television vectors and the making of a media event: the helicopter, the freeway chase, and national memory / Marita Sturken -- Tomorrow will be...risky and disciplined / Toby Miller -- Neighbours from hell: producing incivilities / Gareth Palmer -- The court of last resort: making race, crime, and nation on America's most wanted / Margaret Derosia -- Prime-time fiction theorizes the docu-real / John Caldwell -- Uncertainty, conspiracy, abduction / Jodi Dean -- Television, therapy, and the social subject; or, the TV therapy machine / Mimi White

Reality-based television has come to play a major role in both production decisions and network strategy. This text examines the representation of reality within the televisual viewing frame, as well as the exponential growth of these programmes.

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Realism on television
Reality television programs--History and criticism--United States
Media Studies.
Media studies
Television
United States of America, USA