A Companion to Reality Television

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

Avainsanat: non-fiction television; documentary television; game shows; talk shows; television studies; cultural studies; gender and television; ethics and entertainment; identity and entertainment; television research; cultural studies research; political economy; media studies research; television scholarship; cinema studies; journalism ethics; ethics and television; critical theory; social theory; social experiments; celebrity; television trends; popular culture; youth culture; consumer culture; visual culture; Big Brother; Survivor; Amazing Race; Got Talent, Media Studies, Media Criticism, Media Studies, Media Criticism