FREAKSHOW - Couverture souple

Dovey, Jon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745314503 ISBN 13 : 9780745314501

Editeur : Pluto Press, 2000

Synopsis

True confessions, fake films and docu-soaps - in the last ten years factual television has been transformed by an explosion of new genres. Freakshow offers a serious look at 'reality TV' in an attempt to understand the mass media’s fascination with intimacy, deviancy, and horror.

Jon Dovey analyses reality TV in terms of the political economy of the mass media. He investigates the relationship between confessional television and our modern understanding of culture and identity. Is our fascination with the personal the only meaningful response to the complexity of our own lives? Are the politics of the self the only alternative to the defunct grand narratives of yesterday?

In concentrating not on the reception of these new television forms but on the choices, models and agendas which inform their production, Dovey reveals the relationships between social anxieties, economic pressures and their specific inflections in media texts. In a critical analysis of media industry practice, Dovey asks why directors can't stay out of range of their own cameras - and what is the role of the television of intimacy within broadcasting.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jon Dovey is a writer, producer and senior lecturer in Cultural and Media Studies at the University of the West of England. He is the editor of Fractal Dreams: New Media in Social Contact (Lawrence and Wishart, 1996) and Freakshow (Pluto Press, 2000).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pluto Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745314503
• ISBN 13: 9780745314501
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible