UNDERSTANDING REALITY TELEVISION

covered include surveillance, the construction of celebrity, temporality in Reality TV, the politics of representation (with case studies considering the construction of community, women, gay identity and "class"), and audience responses and fandom.

Notes on contributors

vii

Acknowledgements

x

Introduction: understanding Reality TV

1

(210)

SU HOLMES AND DEBORAH JERMYN

1 Candid Camera and the origins of Reality TV: contextualising a historical precedent

33

(21)

BRADLEY D. CLISSOLD

2 From Ozzie Nelson to Ozzy Osbourne: the genesis and development of the Reality (star) sitcom

54

(17)

JENNIFER GILLAN

3 'This is about real people!': video technologies, actuality and affect in the television crime appeal

71

(20)

DEBORAH JERMYN

4 Reality TV, troublesome pictures and panics: reappraising the public controversy around Reality TV in Europe

91

(20)

DANIEL BILTEREYST

5 'All you've got to worry about is the task, having a cup of tea, and doing a bit of sunbathing': approaching celebrity in Big Brother

111

(25)

SU HOLMES

6 Temporalities of the real: conceptualising time in Reality TV

136

(18)

MISHA KAVKA AND AMY WEST

7 In search of community on Reality TV: America's Most Wanted and Survivor

154

(19)

GRAY LAVENDER

8 'The New You': class and transformation in lifestyle television

173

(18)

GARETH PALMER

9 Socially soothing stories? Gender, race and class in TLC's A Wedding Story and A Baby Story

191

(20)

REBECCA L. STEPHENS

10 The household, the basement and The Real World: gay identity in the constructed reality environment

211

(22)

CHRISTOPHER PULLEN

11 'It isn't always Shakespeare, but It's genuine': cinema's commentary on documentary hybrids

233

(19)

CRAIG HIGHT

12 Big Brother: reconfiguring the 'active' audience of cultural studies?

252

(18)

ESTELLA TINCKNELL AND PARVATI RAGHURAM

13 'Jump in the pool': the competitive culture of Survivor fan networks

270

(20)

DEREK FOSTER

14 Afterword: framing the new

290

(10)

JOHN CORNER

Index

300

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