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Reality Television and Class
Helen Wood
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Description for Reality Television and Class
Hardback. 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. Editor(s): Skeggs, Beverley; Wood, Helen. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; APT. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 172 x 22. Weight in Grams: 689.
T?his is the first book about reality television to make class its central focus. Despite popular and media debate about the 'classed' behaviour of reality stars such as Jade Goody and Shilpa Shetty, and the class confrontations depicted in shows such as Wife Swap, class politics have been overlooked in much political and academic discussion of reality television. 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 television frame, ... Read more
T?his is the first book about reality television to make class its central focus. Despite popular and media debate about the 'classed' behaviour of reality stars such as Jade Goody and Shilpa Shetty, and the class confrontations depicted in shows such as Wife Swap, class politics have been overlooked in much political and academic discussion of reality television. 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 television frame, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844573981
SKU
V9781844573981
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99-5
About Helen Wood
HELEN WOOD is Reader in Media and Communication at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. She is the author of Talking With Television: Women, Talk Shows, and Modern Self-Reflexivity (2009). BEVERLEY SKEGGS is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Her publications include Formations of Class and Gender: Becoming Respectable (1997) and Class, Self, Culture (2004), and she ... Read more
Reviews for Reality Television and Class
This is a very exciting book. A volume of this scope on the class politics of reality TV is long overdue, and this is clearly going to be the authoritative work on the subject. Reality Television and Classgives us the tools for bringing about not just a theoretical, but also a political, renewal in the study of TV, in all ... Read more