Reality TV: Audiences and Popular Factual TelevisionPsychology Press, 2005 - 231 pages Annette Hill discusses a wide range of reality television shows, drawing on research among reality TV viewers to consider how different audience groups think about factual television, and whether they consider such programmes to be providing entertainment or information. |
Contents
1 Understanding reality TV | 1 |
2 The rise of reality TV | 14 |
3 The reality genre | 41 |
4 Performance and authenticity | 57 |
5 The idea of learning | 79 |
6 Ethics of care | 108 |
7 Pet deaths | 135 |
8 Story of change | 170 |
Appendices | 194 |
Notes | 207 |
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