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Battle stations : the reality war is coming in Sunday Age (26/07/2015) p.6
Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; REALITY TV. AUSTRALIAAuthor: Bowden, Ebony PhysDes: Clippings File ArticleSubject: REALITY TV. AUSTRALIA ; REALITY SHOWS, TV. AUSTRALIA Summary: Australian TV will be showing a raft of new shows, many from the reality television genre. Some discussion of the new shows as well as why this is happening
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Billion dollar game : how three men risked it all and changed the face of television / Peter Bazalgette London: Time Warner, 2005.
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Blurred boundaries : questions of meaning in contemporary culture / Bill Nichols Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
Call No: 409 NICAuthor: Nichols, Bill Place: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 1994PhysDes: xvii, 187 p. ; 25 cmSubject: ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; AUDIENCES ; BODY IN FILMS ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; SEMI-DOCUMENTARIES ; SOCIAL HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; KING, RODNEY ; STACHKA [STRIKE] (UR, Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1925) ; REALISM ON TV ; REALITY "SHOWS" ; REALITY TV ; RACIAL PROBLEMS ON TV ; RACIAL PROBLEMS AND TV ; TRUTH IN FILMS ; VIOLENCE ON TV ; WAR AND THE CINEMA ; GULF WAR ON TV ; ETHICS AND TV Summary: "Blurred Boundaries explores decisive moments where the traditional boundaries of fiction/non-fiction and truth/falsehood blur. Nichols argues that the history of social representation in film, television, and video requires an understanding of the fate of both contemporary and older work. Traditionally, film history and cultural studies sought to place films in a historical context. Nichols proposes a new goal: to examine how specific works, old and new, promote or suppress a sense of historical consciousness. Examining work from Eisenstein's Strike to the Rodney King videotape, Nichols interrelates issues of formal structure, viewer response, and historical consciousness. Simultaneously, Blurred Boundaries radically alters the interpretative frameworks offered by neoformalism and psychoanalysis: Comprehension itself becomes a social act of transformative understanding rather than an abstract mental process, while the use of psychoanalytic terms like desire, lack, or paranoia to make social points metaphorically yields to vocabulary designed expressly for historical interpretation - such as project, intentionality, and the social imaginary. An important departure from prevailing trends in many fields, Blurred Boundaries offers new directions for the study of visual culture." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-182) and indexISBN: 0253340640 (alk. paper); 0253209005 (paper : alk. paper)LON: 10767942
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Lies, damn lies and documentaries / Brian Winston London: British Film Institute, 2000.
Call No: 761 WINAuthor: Winston, Brian Place: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 2000PhysDes: iv, 186 p. ; 24 cmSubject: DOCUMENTARIES ; AUDIENCES ; "REALITY" SHOWS ; LAW AND TV ; GOVERNMENT CONTROL,TV ; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS ; ETHICS AND THE CINEMA ; ETHICS AND TV ; CONNECTION, THE [TV] (UK, 1996) Summary: "Recent scandals surrounding faked TV documentaries have brought the whole issue of ethics to the foreground of media debate. Most good documentarists and journalists would agree that ethics lie at the heart of responsible programme-making. However, the topic awaits full exploration and top TV executives recoil at the very mention of the word.
Looking at the crises of confidence in public service broadcasting and the controversy surrounding docusoaps, Brian Winston's major new work provides a foundational study of ethics and the documentary." -- Taken from book cover.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0851707971(pbk.); 0851707963(hbk)LON: 21663027Contents: Part 1: The state of the documentary -- Chapter one: 'Fakery' -- Chapter two: Public service -- Part 2: Regulators -- Chapter 3: Law -- Chapter 4 -- Regulation -- Part 3: Documentarists -- Chapter 5: Free expression -- Chapter 6 -- Ethics -- ConclusionURL status: URL: 'http://-'
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Media matrix : sexing the new reality / Barbara Creed Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 2003.
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Out of the box in Australian Financial Review [AFR Magazine] (6/10/2017) p.74
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Reality TV : Remaking television culture / Susan Murray (ed.) / Laurie Ouellette (ed.) London: New York University Press, 2004.
Call No: 76:759 REAAuthor: Susan Murray (ed.) ; Laurie Ouellette (ed.) Place: New York; LondonPublisher: New York University PressPubDate: 2004PhysDes: 23 cm ; 358 pSubject: REALITY SHOWS, TV. AUSTRALIA ; DOCUMENTARIES ; GAMES SHOWS ; PROGRAMME GENRES ; OSBOURNES, THE [TV] (US, 2002-) ; WOMEN AND TV ; VIOLENCE ON TV ; BIG BROTHER [TV] (AT, 2001) Summary: Beginning by unearthing its historical roots in early reality shows like Candid Camera and wending its way through An American Family, Cops and The Real World to the most recent crop of reality programs, Reality TV is the first book to address the economic, visual, cultural, and audience dimensions of reality television. The essays provide a complex and comprehensive picture of how and why this genre emerged, what it means, how it differs from earlier television programming, and how it engages societies, industries, and individuals. Topics range from the construction of televisual “reality” to the hanging face of criminal violence on TV, to issues of surveillance, taste, and social control. By spanning reality television’s origins in the late 1940s to its current overwhelming popularity, Reality TV demonstrates both the tenacity of the format and its enduring ability to speak to our changing political and social desires and anxieties. [Taken from the back cover].ISBN: 0814756883
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Reality TV's latest grubby conceit in Sydney Morning Herald [TV Guide] (15/05/2017) p.3
Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; REALITY TV. AUSTRALIAAuthor: Enker, Debi PhysDes: Clippings File ArticleSubject: REALITY TV. AUSTRALIA ; REALITY SHOWS, TV. AUSTRALIA Summary: Criticism of a number of Australian reality TV shows that feature relationships in varying stages of trouble SEVEN YEAR SWITCH, MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT
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Struggle Street in sights of networks in The Australian [Media] (18/05/2015) p.23
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Tabloid baby / Burt Kearns Nashville, TN: Celebrity Books, 1999.
Call No: 9946Author: Kearns, Burt Source: USPlace: Nashville, TNPublisher: Celebrity BooksPubDate: 1999PhysDes: xviii, 490 p. : 24 cmSubject: NEWS PROGRAMMES. ; REALITY "SHOWS" ; REALITY TV ; CURRENT AFFAIR, A [TV] (US, 1986- ) Notes: cover note: Out of the Babylon of reality television rises a new generation of network news. An uncensored account of the revolution that gave birth to 21st century television news broadcasting.ISBN: 1580291074Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
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The tube has spoken : reality tv and history / edited by Julie Anne Taddeo and Ken Dvorak Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, c2010.
Call No: 76:759 TUBAuthor: Dvorak, Ken (ed) ; Taddeo, Julie Anne (ed) Source: USPlace: Lexington, Ky.Publisher: University Press of KentuckyPubDate: c2010PhysDes: x, 275 p. ; 24 cmSeries: Film & history (Lexington, Ky.)Subject: REALITY TV ; REALITY "SHOWS" ; CRITICISM Summary: " Featuring ordinary individuals plucked from their living room couches, reality television illuminates a unique world where everyday people produce contemporary history. The draw of reality TV lies in its shock value as the participants interact, scheme, and complete challenges. The Tube Has Spoken: Reality TV and History provides a much-needed critical anlaysis of the growing phenomenon of reality TV, its evolution as a genre, and its historic roots in American culture. The contributors inspect a wide variety of shows from the 1950s to the present, detailing little-known truths of reality TV by analyzing programs such as Candid Camera, Big Brother, Wife Swap, Kid Nation, Survivor, and The Biggest Loser. " BOOK JACKETNotes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9780813125534Contents: Introduction / Julie Anne Taddeo and Ken Dvorak -- Reality TV as social experiment. Citizen Funt : surveillance as cold war entertainment / Fred Nadis -- From social experiment to postmodern jokes : big brother and the progressive construction of celebrity / Lee Barron -- From the kitchen to 10 Downing Street : Jamie's school dinners and reality cooking / James Leggott and Tobias Hochscherf -- The patriotic American is a thin American : fatness and national identity in The biggest loser / Cassandra L. Jones -- Class, gender, and reimaging of family life. Disillusionment, divorce, and the destruction of the American dream : an American family and the rise of reality TV / Laurie Rupert and Sayanti Ganguly Puckett -- "The television audience cannot be expected to bear too much reality" : the family and reality TV / Su Holmes -- Reality TV and the American family / Leigh H. Edwards -- Shopping, makeovers, and nationhood : reality TV and women's programming in Canada / Sarah A. Matheson -- Babes in bonanzaland : kid nation, commodification, and the death of play / Debbie Clare Olson -- Reality TV and the living history experiment. "A storybook every day" : fiction and history in the Channel 4/PBS house series / Julie Anne Taddeo and Ken Dvorak -- "What about giving us a real version of Australian history?" : identity, ethics, and historical understanding in reality history TV / Michelle Arrow -- Living history in documentary practice : the making of The colony / Aurora Scheelings.
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TV formats worldwide : localizing global programs / edited by Albert Moran Bristol: Intellect, 2009.
Call No: 76:759 TVFAuthor: Moran, Albert (ed.) Source: UKPlace: BristolPublisher: IntellectPubDate: 2009PhysDes: 332 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: TELEVISION ; REALITY TV ; REALITY "SHOWS" Summary: "Beginning around 2003, television studies has seen the growth of interest in the genre of reality shows. However, concentrating on this genre has tended to sideline the even more significant emergence of the program format as a central mode of business and culture in the new television landscape.
TV Formats Worldwide redresses this balance, and heralds the emergence of an important, exciting and challenging area of television studies. Topics explored include reality TV, makeover programs, sitcoms, talent shows and fiction serials, as well as broadcaster management policies, production decision chains and audience participation processes. The seminal work will be of considerable interest to media scholars internationally." -- Back coverNotes: Includes biblographic references and indexISBN: 9781841503066Contents: Introduction: 'Descent and modification' / Albert Moran -- Rethinking the local-global nexus through multiple modernities : the case of Arab reality television / Marwan M. Kraidy -- When TV formats are translated / Albert Moran -- Imagining the national : gatekeepers and the adaptation of global franchises in Argentina / Silvio Waisbord and Sonia Jalfin -- Trading in TV entertainment : an analysis / Katja Lantzsch, Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen and Andreas Will -- The rise of the business entertainment format on British television / Raymond Boyle -- Collaborative reproduction of attraction and performance : the case of the reality show Idol / Yngver Njus -- Auditioning for Idol : the audience dimension of format franchising / Doris Baltruschat -- Adapting global television to regional realities : traversing the Middle East experience / Amos Owen Thomas -- How national media systems shape the localization of formats : a transnational case study of The block and Nerds FC in Australia and Denmark / Pia Majbrit Jensen -- Transcultural localization strategies of global TV formats : The office and Stromberg / Edward Larkey -- Tearing up television news across borders : format transfer of news parody shows between Italy and Bulgaria / Gabriele Cosentino, Waddick Doyle and Dimitrina Todorova -- Defining the local : a comparative study of news in Northern Ireland / Sujatha Sosale and Charles Munro -- Independent television production, TV formats and media diversity in China / Michael Keane and Bonnie Liu -- A place in the sun : global seriality and the revival of domestic television drama in Italy / Milly Buonanno -- Idol in a small country : New Zealand idol as the commoditization of cosmopolitan intimacy / Barry King -- From global to glocal : Australianizing the makeover format / Tania Lewis.
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Understanding the global TV format / Albert Moran with Justin Malbon Portland, Or. ; Bristol, England: Intellect Books, 2006.
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Upping the ante : Survivor and Big Brother and the televisual triumph of the reality game show / Sophie Alexiadis Melbourne: 2004.
Call No: 76:759.5 ALEAuthor: Sophie Alexiadis Place: MelbournePubDate: 2004PhysDes: 185 p ; 30 cmSubject: REALITY SHOWS, TV. AUSTRALIA ; BIG BROTHER [TV] (AT, 2001) ; GAMES SHOWS ; GAMES SHOWS. AUSTRALIA ; PROGRAMME GENRES ; AESTHETICS Summary: This thesis conducts a formal analysis of the ways in which phenomenal television successes Survivor and Big Brother are situated in histories of dcumentary, reality television and game shows; and how they may indicate a broader change in television production aesthetics and viewing practices for the new millenium. Historically, the reality game shows Survivor and Big Brother can be seen as belonging to and perpetuating a form which commenced with the first television broadcasts: the game show genre. Yet, with hybridized formats incorporating elements of news, soap opera, talk shows or fly-on-the-wall documentaries, these recent shows exploit the latest television technology. How shows such as Survivor and Big Brother expand or subvert the game show genre is, therefore, central to this thesis. [Taken from thesis summary].Notes: RMIT masters thesis
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What about me? Identity, subjectivity and reality TV participation / by Winnie Salamon Melbourne: 2010.
Call No: 76:759 SALAuthor: Salamon, Winnie Source: ATPlace: MelbournePubDate: 2010PhysDes: 275 leaves, bound ; 30 cmSubject: PERSONALITIES ON TV ; PERSONALITIES ON TV. AUSTRALIA ; POPULAR CULTURE AND TV ; POPULAR CULTURE AND TV. AUSTRALIA ; REALITY "SHOWS" ; REALITY SHOWS, TV. AUSTRALIA ; REALITY SHOWS. AUSTRALIA ; REALITY TV ; REALITY TV. AUSTRALIA ; RESEARCH TV ; TELEVISION ; AUSTRALIAN IDOL [TV] (AT, 2003-) ; BIG BROTHER (AT, 2001) ; BIG BROTHER [TV] ; BIG BROTHER [TV] (AT, 2001) ; BIG BROTHER UNCUT [TV] (AT, 2001-) ; BIGGEST LOSER, THE [TV] (AT, 2006) Summary: "This thesis examines first person accounts of former reality television participants who have appeared on Australian versions of Big Brother, Australian Idol and The Biggest Loser. While scholars have researched audience responses to a wide range of reality shows, little research has been conducted on the participants themselves. My qualitative research study involving 15 semi-structed one-on-one interviews with reality TV participants addresses this gap, using these accounts to explore broader issues surrounding late modern identity and subjectivity" -- ABSTRACTNotes: Typescript; Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, School of Culture and Communication, 2011; Includes bibliographical referencesContents: -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- chapter one: reality tv and our collective selves: a history and review of the literature -- chapter two: qualitative research and reflexivity: interviewing through an ethnographic gaze -- chapter three: 'there's no reality in reality tv': performing the real in a 'reality flavoured' universe -- chapter four: what about me? reality tv and the self-governed citizen -- chapter five: brand new world: reality tv and the branded human -- chapter six: reality is a bitch: expectations and disappointments in reality tv -- chapter seven: hijacking the branded self: reality tv and the politics of subversion -- conclusion -- appendix 1: the interviewees -- appendix 2: interview questions -- bibliography --
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Young people, soap operas and reality tv / Von Feilitzen, C. Sweden: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media, 2004.
Call No: 412-053.2 VONPlace: SwedenPublisher: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and MediaPubDate: 2004PhysDes: 255 p. ; 25 cmSubject: YOUNG PEOPLE AND TV ; SOAP OPERAS ; REALITY SHOWS Summary: This is the 2004 yearbook of ‘The International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media’, which is sponsored by UNESCO and the Swedish government. The aim of the 2004 yearbook is to stimulate research on young people, soap operas and reality TV. Realsing that there has not been a great amount of research undertaken in this field, the Clearinghouse has encouraged scholars from around the world to contribute their research.
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