TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kavka,Misha
TI  - Reality TV
T2  - TV genres
SN  - 9780748637225 (hbk.)
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Reality television programs
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-194) and index; Introduction: what is reality TV? -- Before reality TV: from Candid Camera to Family docs -- First-generation reality TV (1989-99): the camcorder era -- Second-generation reality TV (1999-2000): Surveillance and competition in Big Brother and Survivor -- The second generation comes of age (2001-5): challenge and transformation -- Third-generation reality TV (2002- ): economies of celebrity -- Legacies: the new MTV generation
N2  - Is reality TV a coherent genre? This book addresses this question by examining the characteristics, contexts and breadth of reality TV through a history of its programming trends. Paying attention to stylistic connections as well as key concepts, this study breaks reality television down into three main'generations': the camcorder generation, the competition generation and the celebrity generation. Beginning with a consideration of the applicability of the term'genre' for this televisual hybrid, the book takes a transnational approach to investigating the forms and formats of reality TV framed by relevant popular and critical discourses
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