Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Wood, Helen, 1972-
2. Skeggs, Beverley.

Description

1. x, 254 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

1. "This is the first book about reality television to make class its central focus. In their introduction, the editors spell out how reality television -- by making visible new forms of performance labour -- invites a serious discussion of class. Internationally-renowned media scholars and sociologists explore the ways in which 'ordinary people' enter the trelevision frame, and how discourses of class are routed through national concerns and fears. How does class get 'cast' and made performative? What modes are there for people to wrestle-back their forms of representation? And how should we understand this intense manipulation of feeling? This book examines why class politics matter against much political and academic rhetoric which refract inequality through other means"--Publisher's description.

Subject

1. Reality television programs > Social aspects
2. Social classes
3. Social role
4. Social values
5. Social mobility
6. Reality television programs > Psychological aspects
7. Social Class
8. Social Values
9. Social Mobility

Contents

1. Introduction: Real class / Beverley Skaggs and Helen Wood -- Mediated exchange and judgement: Class and contemporary forms of "reality" production or, hidden injuries of class / Nick Couldry ; "I'm common and my talking is quite abrupt" (Jade Goody) : language and class in Celebrity big brother / Andrew Tolson ; Managing the borders : classed mobility on security-themed reality TV / Mark Andrejevic ; Fame on the farm : class and celebrity on Slovene reality TV / Zala Volcic & Karmen Erjavec ; Reality TV without class : the postsocialist anti-celebrity docusoap / Aniko Imre & Annabel Tremlett ; "You've put yourselves on a plate" : the labours of selfhood on MasterChef Australia / Tania Lewis -- Normalisation, aspiration and its limits: "I'm a girl, I should be a princess" : gender, class entitlement and denial in The Hills / Lisa Taylor ; Organic branding : the self, advertising and life-experience formats / Gareth Palmer ; "The virtuous circle" : social entrepreneurship and welfare programming in the UK / Anita Biressi ; From all-American Mom to super bitch from Hell : Kate Gosselin and the classed and gendered politics of reality television / Brenda R. Weber ; Investing in the "forever home" : from property programming to "retreat TV" / Heather Nunn -- Performing and feeling class: Reality television's "classrooms" : knowing, showing, and telling about social class in reality casting and the college classroom / Vicki Mayer ; From Jerry Springer to Jersey shore : the cultural politics of class in/on US reality programming / Laura Grindstaff ; Pramface girls : the class politics of "maternal TV" / Imogen Tyler ; Shame on you! : intergenerational trauma and working-class femininity on reality television / Valerie Walkerdine ; "This is a matter of pride" : the choir, un-sung town and community transformation / Lisa Blackman.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain