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Television, Aesthetics and Reality (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Television, Aesthetics and Reality (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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This new collection of essays seeks to focus on three areas where
television has recently been in an intriguing state of flux. Taking
as our background the emergence of multimedia conglomerates and
cash-rich cable channels, we look at the way old national
terrestrial channels and the brash new internationally
commercialized ones have innovated in the domain of television
programming. In all there are fourteen original essays, an
introduction to the book's theme by the editor and a foreword by
Professor Annette Hill. Section one "Realizing the Real" looks at
contemporary patterns of television consumption and the
presentational styles which package the real in news, current
affairs and other `live' television formats. Essays on rhetorical
strategies in the news coverage of the war in Iraq, on national and
international inflections of Sky News in Europe and coverage of the
recent EURO2004 football tournament, as well the multi-channel
reporting of a prominent paedophilia scandal, are presented in this
section. They all analyse the extent to which the grounded and the
local are threatened and distorted by hegemonic forces in media
today. The findings of a comprehensive new study of Portuguese
social practices and viewing habits are also featured in this
section.Section Two "Realizing Performance" addresses the way new
trends in reality programming and other documentary practices have
impacted on fiction and entertainment television. There are essays
on the recent wave of British television comedy heavily influenced
by TV newsmagazine and fly-on-the-wall documentary styles and two
pieces on new American series, 24 and CSI, which have
revolutionized the narrative parameters and evidential base for
thrillers and cop shows respectively, coming up with new ways to
`perform' space, time and science. Finally there is an essay on
Nigel Kneale's The Year of the Sex Olympics (1968), a survivor from
the era of the single play who seems to anticipate the future of
television in reality-based gameshow-style entertainment. Each of
these essays shows that the success of these programmes is
dependent on a fresh restylization of the conventions and formulas
which govern mainstream television programming. They therefore see
the representation of the real in fiction as primarily an aesthetic
reappraisal.Section Three "Performing the Real" looks at the
explosion in reality television programming itself. It focuses on
the coming to pass of 70s and 80s theorists' visions of both a
passive voyeuristic society and one increasingly at peace with the
notion of surveillance. We have been progressively acculturated to
watching and being watched. Orwellian anxiety has given way to
Baudrillardian acceptance of the message and the medium fused in a
new order of mediated reality or hyperreality. Essays refer
specifically to the globalization of shows and formats and their
local inflections and to coverage of reality shows in print media
and on the net. There are essays on The Bachelor and gender
stereotyping, Joe Millionaire and the conventions of melodrama, and
two on Big Brother, one on the problems of communication within a
sealed environment and another on its reception in Portugal.
Concerns about the self and its authenticity are consistency raised
in all the essays of this section.
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