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Author: Brenda R. Weber
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.535kg
ISBN: 9780822356820
ISBN 10: 0822356821
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 28 March 2014
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This timely anthology brings together a selection of strong scholarship concerned with the gendered dimensions of reality television. Although there already exist some good analyses of reality TV, this anthology's focus on gender and its intersections is a necessary addition to the field. Brenda R. Weber's introduction is pivotal in our thinking about gender and the reality genre, and there is a serious attempt to think beyond the US-including some useful contributions about UK reality television. The collection fills a gap in the scholarly literature and is a welcome and necessary addition to the field of reality TV studies. -- Katherine Sender, author of The Makeover: Reality Television and Reflexive Audiences While there has been a significant amount of research done on reality television over the past decade, only a small portion of that work has focused on gender, despite the plethora of issues around gender and sexuality found in reality TV programming. This anthology fills the gap. -- Susan Murray, coeditor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture This book is a must-read for all who are interested in gender studies as well as for economists, sociologists, and people from social sciences who are interested in the social and political effects of the ongoing recession and the rising economic inequality in the United States and Europe. It provides an important missing link between feminist economist and sociological analyses of the gendered causes as well as the gendered impact of the financial crisis and the recession... -- Margunn Bjornholt Women's Studies This collection of essays is an informative, interesting, and entertaining read, even for someone who has never watched a reality program because the essays are so well-written, and synopses so well-intertwined, that one can easily understand the arguments. -- Sarah Gawronski The Journal of Popular Culture
While there has been a significant amount of research done on reality television over the past decade, only a small portion of that work has focused on gender, despite the plethora of issues around gender and sexuality found in reality TV programming. This anthology fills the gap. -- Susan Murray, coeditor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture This collection of essays is an informative, interesting, and entertaining read, even for someone who has never watched a reality program because the essays are so well-written, and synopses so well-intertwined, that one can easily understand the arguments. -- Sarah Gawronski The Journal of Popular Culture This timely anthology brings together a selection of strong scholarship concerned with the gendered dimensions of reality television. Although there already exist some good analyses of reality TV, this anthology's focus on gender and its intersections is a necessary addition to the field. Brenda R. Weber's introduction is pivotal in our thinking about gender and the reality genre, and there is a serious attempt to think beyond the US-including some useful contributions about UK reality television. The collection fills a gap in the scholarly literature and is a welcome and necessary addition to the field of reality TV studies. -- Katherine Sender, author of The Makeover: Reality Television and Reflexive Audiences
This timely anthology brings together a selection of strong scholarship concerned with the gendered dimensions of reality television. Although there already exist some good analyses of reality TV, this anthology's focus on gender and its intersections is a necessary addition to the field. Brenda R. Weber's introduction is pivotal in our thinking about gender and the reality genre, and there is a serious attempt to think beyond the US-including some useful contributions about UK reality television. The collection fills a gap in the scholarly literature and is a welcome and necessary addition to the field of reality TV studies. -- Katherine Sender, author of The Makeover: Reality Television and Reflexive Audiences While there has been a significant amount of research done on reality television over the past decade, only a small portion of that work has focused on gender, despite the plethora of issues around gender and sexuality found in reality TV programming. This anthology fills the gap. -- Susan Murray, coeditor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture This collection of essays is an informative, interesting, and entertaining read, even for someone who has never watched a reality program because the essays are so well-written, and synopses so well-intertwined, that one can easily understand the arguments. -- Sarah Gawronski The Journal of Popular Culture
While there has been a significant amount of research done on reality television over the past decade, only a small portion of that work has focused on gender, despite the plethora of issues around gender and sexuality found in reality TV programming. This anthology fills the gap. --Susan Murray, coeditor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture
While there has been a significant amount of research done on reality television over the past decade, only a small portion of that work has focused on gender, despite the plethora of issues around gender and sexuality found in reality TV programming. This anthology fills the gap. --Susan Murray, coeditor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture
“This book is a must-read for all who are interested in gender studies as well as for economists, sociologists, and people from social sciences who are interested in the social and political effects of the ongoing recession and the rising economic inequality in the United States and Europe. It provides an important missing link between feminist economist and sociological analyses of the gendered causes as well as the gendered impact of the financial crisis and the recession….” - Margunn Bjørnholt (Women's Studies) “This collection of essays is an informative, interesting, and entertaining read, even for someone who has never watched a reality program because the essays are so well-written, and synopses so well-intertwined, that one can easily understand the arguments.” - Sarah Gawronski (Journal of Popular Culture)
Author Information
Brenda R. Weber is Associate Professor in Gender Studies at Indiana University, where she holds adjunct appointments in American Studies, Cultural Studies, Communication and Culture, and English. She is the author of Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century: The Transatlantic Production of Fame and Gender and Makeover TV: Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity, which is also published by Duke University Press.
