Reality TV: How Real is Real? - Softcover

Bernard Clark; Christopher Dunkley; Victoria Mapplebeck; Graham Barnfield

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340857358 ISBN 13: 9780340857359

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002

Synopsis

Over the last few years, Reality TV has established itself as a major television genre. This is TV about real people, and for real people. But how valid is the claim that these programmes tell us the truth about our lives?

Is it better simply to point the camera and let people tell their own stories, or does this approach miss something important? Some argue that it is arrogant for programme makers to impose an interpretation. Others insist that they have a responsibility to bring intelligence and insight to their subject matter.

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About the Author

The Institute of Ideas's mission is to bring fresh ideas to the public arena on the key debates of our time. The IoI aims to be an agenda-setting organization prepared to think the unthinkable and encourage others to do likewise. The IoI is committed to forging a space where ideas can be contested without constraint, and where the clash of ideas is recognized as integral to the process of knowledge expansion.
Editor (from the Institute of Ideas): Dolan Cummings
Contributors:
"h Bernard Clark, documentary maker
"h Christopher Dunkley, TV critic for the Financial Times
"h Victoria Mapplebeck, TV producer and writer
"h Graham Barnfield, lecturer in journalism at The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College

Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340857358
• ISBN 13: 9780340857359
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 78
• Editor: Dolan Cummings