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Reality Television and Class

Hardback | English

By (author): Beverley Skeggs Helen Wood

T?his is the first book about reality television to make class its central focus. Despite popular and media debate about the ''classed'' behaviour of reality stars such as Jade Goody and Shilpa Shetty, and the class confrontations depicted in shows such as Wife Swap, class politics have been overlooked in much political and academic discussion of reality television. In their introduction, the editors spell out how reality television - by making visible new forms of performance labour - invites a serious discussion of class. Internationally-renowned media scholars and sociologists explore the ways in which ''ordinary people'' enter the television frame, and how discourses of class are routed through national concerns and fears.

Through an analysis of programmes such as Celebrity Big Brother, The Hills, MasterChef and Ladette to Lady, the contributors tackle common assumptions in television analysis to show how the mere fact of ''being on tv'' is not a straightforward route to recognition, democracy, mobility or value; how new moral economies are emerging in which judgement and aspiration are normalised; and that class relationships are key dramatic devices in the spectacle of television entertainment. See more
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Product Details
  • Format: Hardback
  • Dimensions: 172 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Dec 2011
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781844573981

About Beverley SkeggsHelen Wood

HELEN WOOD is Reader in Media and Communication at De Montfort University Leicester UK. She is the author of Talking With Television: Women Talk Shows and Modern Self-Reflexivity (2009).BEVERLEY SKEGGS is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths University of London UK. Her publications include Formations of Class and Gender: Becoming Respectable (1997) and Class Self Culture (2004) and she is the co-editor of the journal Sociological Review.

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