1st Edition
Reacting to Reality Television Performance, Audience and Value
Introduction: Reacting to Reality Television 1. From Representation to Intervention 2. Public Intimacy, Performance and the Value of Personhood 3. Textual Intimacies 4. Reacting to Reality Television: Methodology 5. Affect and Ambiguity, Not Governmentality 6. From Affect to Authority: The Making of the Moral Person 7. The Productive Person: Recognizing Labour and Value 8. Conclusion: Intimacy, Ideology, Value and Politics
Biography
Helen Wood is Reader in Media and Communication, in the Department of Media, Film and Journalism at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
Beverley Skeggs is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She held the Kerstin Hesselgren Professor in Gender Studies at Stockholm University and is an Academician of the Academy of the Learned Societies for the Social Sciences, UK. She has worked in the areas of Women’s Studies and Cultural Studies as well as Sociology.
'...Skeggs and Wood's offer a remarkably rich interrogation of the significance of reality-based media in one closely observed context....a book of unusual methodological richness.' Nick Couldry, International Journal of Communication
