9781859845400-1859845401-Shooting People: Adventures in Reality TV

Shooting People: Adventures in Reality TV

ISBN-13: 9781859845400
ISBN-10: 1859845401
Edition: First Edition
Author: Sam Brenton, Reuben Cohen
Publication date: 2003
Publisher: Verso
Format: Hardcover 160 pages
FREE US shipping

Book details

ISBN-13: 9781859845400
ISBN-10: 1859845401
Edition: First Edition
Author: Sam Brenton, Reuben Cohen
Publication date: 2003
Publisher: Verso
Format: Hardcover 160 pages

Summary

Shooting People: Adventures in Reality TV (ISBN-13: 9781859845400 and ISBN-10: 1859845401), written by authors Sam Brenton, Reuben Cohen, was published by Verso in 2003. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Shooting People: Adventures in Reality TV (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

Description

In the late 1990s the television landscape underwent a seismic change as the reality game shows Big Brother and Survivor won unprecedented audiences across Europe and the US. Subjecting their contestants to protracted seclusion from the outside world, the shows offered up a novel combination of mundanity and extremity, and bred a host of imitations which ranged from the absurdly inept to the outright sadistic.

Shooting People explores the emergence of the form, its relation to documentary and its significance in a globalized TV industry. Sam Brenton and Reuben Cohen draw parallels between some of the methods employed to control contestants and techniques of incarceration and psychological interrogation, and expose the nefarious influence of psychologists and psychotherapists in the business of reality TV. This ‘ultimate form of light entertainment’ is also shown to be a perfect propaganda vehicle for an anti-political culture in which, in the absence of grand narratives, the personal focus, the detritus of selfhood, has become seen as the only story worth telling.

Rate this book Rate this book

We would LOVE it if you could help us and other readers by reviewing the book