Reality TV is popular entertainment. And yet a common way to start a conversation about it is I wouldn t want anyone to know this but Why do people love and love to hate reality TV?

This book explores reality TV in all its forms - from competitive talent shows to reality soaps - examining a range of programmes from the mundane to those that revel in the spectacle of excess. Annette Hill s research draws on interviews with television producers on the market of reality TV and audience research with over fifteen thousand participants during a fifteen year period.

Key themes in the book...

Reality TV is popular entertainment. And yet a common way to start a conversation about it is I wouldn t want anyone to know this but Why do people love and love to hate reality TV?

This book explores reality TV in all its forms - from competitive talent shows to reality soaps - examining a range of programmes from the mundane to those that revel in the spectacle of excess. Annette Hill s research draws on interviews with television producers on the market of reality TV and audience research with over fifteen thousand participants during a fifteen year period.

Key themes in the book...

What are the qualities and properties that make something cultural? What does claiming something as cultural allow us to do?"

Culture "offers students a workable understanding of the category culture and explores how the realm of the cultural can be practically explored as a way of understanding the world.

Ben Highmore provides a clear and robust defence of the productivity of cultural analysis in a media saturated world, while also instilling a sense of modesty in qualifying what can and can t be accomplished in the name of cultural analysis.

With extensive examples and case...

What are the qualities and properties that make something cultural? What does claiming something as cultural allow us to do?"

Culture "offers students a workable understanding of the category culture and explores how the realm of the cultural can be practically explored as a way of understanding the world.

Ben Highmore provides a clear and robust defence of the productivity of cultural analysis in a media saturated world, while also instilling a sense of modesty in qualifying what can and can t be accomplished in the name of cultural analysis.

With extensive examples and case...

Written especially for undergraduate students, "Representation" synthesises and updates our understandings of representation - and the tools for its analysis - for use in the new mediascape.

Jenny Kidd uses an engaging range of current examples and a lively style to explore a number of key questions reflecting existing and contemporary debates about representation.

These key questions include: Who owns and manages representations? Whose realities are foregrounded, and whose are consigned to invisibility? To what extent are increased opportunities for self-representation altering the...

Written especially for undergraduate students, "Representation" synthesises and updates our understandings of representation - and the tools for its analysis - for use in the new mediascape.

Jenny Kidd uses an engaging range of current examples and a lively style to explore a number of key questions reflecting existing and contemporary debates about representation.

These key questions include: Who owns and manages representations? Whose realities are foregrounded, and whose are consigned to invisibility? To what extent are increased opportunities for self-representation altering the...