TY - BOOK AU - Bauwel, Sofie van, ed. AU - Carpentier, Nico, ed. TI - Trans-reality television: the transgression of reality, genre, politics, and audience SN - 9780739131886 U1 - 791.453 PY - 2010/// CY - Lanham PB - Lexington books KW - Reality television programs--Political aspects KW - Reality television programs--Social aspects N1 - Introduction -- Trans-reality tv as a site of contingent reality / Sofie Van Bauwel and Nico Carpentier -- Trans-Reality. A short introduction to trans-reality / Sofie Van Bauwel -- The spectacle of the real and whatever other constructions / Sofie Van Bauwel -- On the media representation of reality : Peirce and Auerbach-two unlikely guests in the big brother house / Fernando Andacht -- Reality tv and reality of tv : How much reality is there in reality tv shows? a critical approach / Anastasia Deligiaouri and Mirkica Popovic -- Trans-professionalism undone? the 2007 British tv scandals / Matthew Hibberd -- Trans-Politics. A short introduction to trans-politics and the trans-political / Nico Carpentier -- Post-democracy, hegemony and invisible power : the reality tvmedia professional as primum movens immobile / Nico Carpentier -- Punitive reality tv : televizing punishment and the production of law and order/ Jan Pinseler -- After politics, what is left is the police : police videos and the neo-liberal order / Jan Teurlings -- Hijacking the branded self : reality tv and the politics of subversion / Winnie Salamon -- Trans-Genre. A short introduction to trans-genre / Sofie Van Bauwel -- Genre as discursive practice and the governmentality of formatting in post-documentary tv / Frank Boddin -- Trans-national reality tv : a comparative study of the UK's and Norway's Wife swap / Gunn Sara Enli and Brian McNair -- Trans-Audience. A short introduction to trans-audience / Nico Carpentier -- Trans-audiencehood of Big Brother : discourses of fans, producers and participants / Mikko Hautakangas -- Reality tv and "ordinary" people : re-visiting celebrity, performance and authenticity / Su Holmes -- Lifestyle tv : critical attitudes towards "banal" programming / Tanja Thomas -- Conclusion. The politics of the prefix : from "post" to "trans" (and back)? / Nico Carpentier and Sofie Van Bauwel ER -