Author

Publication

2012 - Palgrave Macmillan, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

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Page Count

0 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780230379961
  • ISBN-100230379966
  • Library of Congress Control Number2011047899
  • OCLC Control Number764357711
  • Better World Books9780230379961
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Classifications

  • DDC384.55/32
  • LCCHF6146.T42 D44 2012
  • LCCHM623PN1992.63PN1993

Description

"Consuming Reality examines TV's response to the increasing pressure to brand content in a post-advertising era. Its comprehensive analysis of the commercial practices found in popular reality programming reveals links to larger trends such as the sentimental dissemination of capitalist and nationalist ideologies, the professionalization of social relationships (including conceptions of self), and the mainstreaming of PR techniques in everyday life. Topics include: reality formats as pseudo-events, participation/interactivity, product placement, donorship, TV-web branding, caring capitalism, commercial nationalism, mediation as consumption, consumption as mediation, making over homes/bodies as properties, consumer identity and pathology, gendered consumption, religion, Disney, and the American Dream"--

Subjects

Topics

Television advertisingReality television programsSOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular CulturePERFORMING ARTS / Television / Guides & ReviewsPERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism

Other Editions

  • Consuming realityPalgrave Macmillan2012

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