Big brother : reality TV in the twenty-first century / Jonathan Bignell.
"Jonathan Bignell presents a wide-ranging analysis of the television phenomenon of the early twenty-first century: reality TV. He explores its cultural and political meanings, explains the genesis of the form and its relationship to contemporary television production, and considers how it conne...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Basingstoke [UK] ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2005.
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | "Jonathan Bignell presents a wide-ranging analysis of the television phenomenon of the early twenty-first century: reality TV. He explores its cultural and political meanings, explains the genesis of the form and its relationship to contemporary television production, and considers how it connects with, and breaks away from, factual and fictional conventions in television."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 189 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-184) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1403916845 9781403916846 1403916853 9781403916853 |