Trans-reality television: the transgression of reality, genre, politics, and audience/ 
edited by Sofie Van Bauwel and Nico Carpentier 
 - Lanham:  Lexington books,  2010. 
 - vi, 332 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Introduction --<br/>Trans-reality tv as a site of contingent reality / Sofie Van Bauwel and Nico Carpentier --<br/>Trans-Reality. A short introduction to trans-reality / Sofie Van Bauwel --<br/>The spectacle of the real and whatever other constructions / Sofie Van Bauwel --<br/>On the media representation of reality : Peirce and Auerbach-two unlikely guests in the big brother house / Fernando Andacht --<br/>Reality tv and reality of tv : How much reality is there in reality tv shows? a critical approach / Anastasia Deligiaouri and Mirkica Popovic --<br/>Trans-professionalism undone? the 2007 British tv scandals / Matthew Hibberd --<br/>Trans-Politics. A short introduction to trans-politics and the trans-political / Nico Carpentier --<br/>Post-democracy, hegemony and invisible power : the reality tvmedia professional as primum movens immobile / Nico Carpentier --<br/>Punitive reality tv : televizing punishment and the production of law and order/ Jan Pinseler --<br/>After politics, what is left is the police : police videos and the neo-liberal order / Jan Teurlings --<br/>Hijacking the branded self : reality tv and the politics of subversion / Winnie Salamon --<br/>Trans-Genre. A short introduction to trans-genre / Sofie Van Bauwel --<br/>Genre as discursive practice and the governmentality of formatting in post-documentary tv / Frank Boddin --<br/>Trans-national reality tv : a comparative study of the UK's and Norway's Wife swap / Gunn Sara Enli and Brian McNair --<br/>Trans-Audience. A short introduction to trans-audience / Nico Carpentier --<br/>Trans-audiencehood of Big Brother : discourses of fans, producers and participants / Mikko Hautakangas --<br/>Reality tv and "ordinary" people : re-visiting celebrity, performance and authenticity / Su Holmes --<br/>Lifestyle tv : critical attitudes towards "banal" programming / Tanja Thomas --<br/>Conclusion. The politics of the prefix : from "post" to "trans" (and back)? / Nico Carpentier and Sofie Van Bauwel. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780739131886 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Reality television programs--Political aspects<br/>Reality television programs--Social aspects
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.453  / BAU/T