[ecrea] new book: Trans-Reality Television

New Book
Trans-Reality Television: The Transgression of 
Reality, Genre, Politics, and Audience

Edited by Sofie Van Bauwel and Nico Carpentier
Lexington Books

"This collection offers an energetic and 
illuminating range of explorations into what is 
involved in thinking about generic shifts and 
generic contexts. It does so in a period 
characterized both by radical transformations in 
the recipes and modes for mediating reality and 
by provocative questions about just what kind of 
datum points for representation 'reality' 
provides. The writings here will provide an 
excellent encouragement towards further 
debate."John Corner, University of Leeds

Trans-Reality Television: The Transgression of 
Reality, Genre, Politics, and Audience offers an 
overview of contributions which engage with the 
phenomenon of reality television as a tool to 
reflect on societal and mediated transformations 
and transgressions. While some contributors delve 
deep into the theoretical issues, others approach 
the topic at hand through empirical studies of 
specific reality television formats and programs. 
The chapters in this volume are divided into four 
sections, all of which deal with how we see the 
fluid social at work in reality television 
through the trans-real, trans-politics, 
trans-genre, and trans-audience. The first 
section stresses the concept of the trans-real. 
These chapters go into the complexity of the 
construction of reality in reality television. 
The second section, which deals with the concept 
of trans-politics, offers a diversity of 
perspectives on the articulation and 
re-articulation of politics and the political. In 
the third section, trans-genre, the chapters 
analyze how the modern conceptualizations of 
genre and format are transcended. Finally, the 
last set of chapters articulate the concept of 
trans-audiences, using case studies of particular 
audiences and a study of reality celebrities. 
Trans-Reality Television concludes by returning 
to the sense and nonsense of the use of these 'post' concepts.

List of Contributors
Fernando Andacht, Frank Boddin, Nico Carpentier, 
Anastasia Deligiaouri, Gunn Sara Enli, Mikko 
Hautakangas, Matthew Hibberd, Su Holmes, Brian 
McNair, Jan Pinseler, Mirkica Popovic, Winnie 
Salamon, Jan Teurlings, Tanja Thomas, Sofie Van Bauwel

More information at:
http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0739131885
or
http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~ncarpent/ar_pub.html

Contents

* Introduction
  o Trans-reality TV as a site of contingent reality
  Sofie Van Bauwel and Nico Carpentier

* I: Trans-Reality
  o 1: A Short Introduction to Trans-Reality
  Sofie Van Bauwel
  o 2: The Spectacle of the Real and Whatever Other Constructions
  Sofie Van Bauwel
  o 3: On the Media Representation of Reality: 
Peirce and Auerbach-two Unlikely Guests in the Big Brother house
  Fernando Andacht
  o 4: Reality TV and Reality of TV. How Much 
Reality is there in Reality TV Shows? A Critical Approach
  Anastasia Deligiaouri and Mirkica Popovic
  o 5: Trans-Professionalism Undone? The 2007 British TV Scandals
  Matthew Hibberd

* II: Trans-Politics
  o 6: A Short Introduction to Trans-Politics and the Trans-Political
  Nico Carpentier
  o 7: Post-Democracy, Hegemony and Invisible 
Power. The Reality TV Media Professional as Primum Movens Immobile
  Nico Carpentier
  o 8: Punitive Reality TV. Televizing Punishment 
and the Production of Law and Order
  Jan Pinseler
  o 9: After Politics, What is Left is the 
Police. Police Videos and the Neo-Liberal Order
  Jan Teurlings
  o 10: Hijacking the Branded Self. Reality TV and the Politics of Subversion
  Winnie Salamon

* III: Trans-Genre
  o 11: A Short Introduction to Trans-Genre
  Sofie Van Bauwel
  o 12: Genre as Discursive Practice and the 
Governmentality of Formatting in Post-Documentary TV
  Frank Boddin
  o 13: Trans-National Reality TV. A Comparative 
Study of the UK's and Norway's Wife Swap
  Gunn Sara Enli and Brian McNair

* IV: Trans-Audience
  o 14: A Short Introduction to Trans-Audience
  Nico Carpentier
  o 15: Trans-Audiencehood of Big Brother. 
Discourses of Fans, Producers and Participants
  Mikko Hautakangas
  o 16: Reality TV and "Ordinary" People. 
Re-visiting Celebrity, Performance and Authenticity
  Su Holmes
  o 17: Lifestyle TV. Critical attitudes towards "banal" programming
  Tanja Thomas
  o 18: The politics of the prefix. From "post" to "trans" (and back)?
  Nico Carpentier and Sofie Van Bauwel

* Index

* About the Authors



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