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Description for Reality TV
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From early first-wave programs such as Candid Camera, An American Family, and The Real World to the shows on our television screens and portable devices today, reality television consistently takes us to cities-such as New York, Los Angeles, and Boston-to imagine the place of urbanity in American culture and society. Jon Kraszewski offers the first extended account of this phenomenon, as he makes the politics of urban space the center of his history and theory of reality television. Kraszewski situates reality television in a larger economic transformation that started in the 1980s when America ... Read more
From early first-wave programs such as Candid Camera, An American Family, and The Real World to the shows on our television screens and portable devices today, reality television consistently takes us to cities-such as New York, Los Angeles, and Boston-to imagine the place of urbanity in American culture and society. Jon Kraszewski offers the first extended account of this phenomenon, as he makes the politics of urban space the center of his history and theory of reality television. Kraszewski situates reality television in a larger economic transformation that started in the 1980s when America ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Routledge Television Guidebooks
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415741989
SKU
V9780415741989
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Ref
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About Jon Kraszewski
Jon Kraszewski is Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of Visual and Sound Media at Seton Hall University. He is author of the book The New Entrepreneurs: An Institutional History of Television Anthology Writers (Wesleyan, 2010), as well numerous articles on television and film.
Reviews for Reality TV
Kraszewski's careful attention to the spatial intersections of class, taste, race, ethnicity, and gender is a highly fruitful method of examining space as the geographic coordinates of social power within a given place in the context of reality TV. - Molly A. Schneider, from Film Criticism, Vol. 42, Issue 3