VDM Verlag
'BIG BROTHER' - The 'Reality Show' as a Globalized 'Post- Documentary' Form
Product Code:
9783639101355
ISBN13:
9783639101355
Condition:
New
$53.25
'BIG BROTHER' - The 'Reality Show' as a Globalized 'Post- Documentary' Form
$53.25
In this book I am attempting to scrutinise the Big Brother show (Endemol, 1999) - the archetype of the 'reality show' genre (Cummings, D, 2002, xii) - as a cultural product of our 'post-modern-late capitalism' era (Jameson, F, 1993, xii). In specific, I am focusing on its function as a pop- culture globalised 'post-documentary' form that, on the one hand, reflects our era's 'post-modern' dimension, and through the space-time processes decontextualises space (geography) and time (history), and thus, distorts our sense of the 'real' and transcends the cultural borders; while on the other hand, reflects our era's 'late- capitalism' dimension, and thus, the western capitalistic spaces, (pop-) cultural symbols and social dynamics. Therefore, Big Brother, enhances the globalisation process in the form of westernisation.
| Author: Ioannis Vamvakitis |
| Publisher: VDM Verlag |
| Publication Date: Nov 12, 2008 |
| Number of Pages: 64 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 3639101359 |
| ISBN-13: 9783639101355 |
Related Products
Independently Published
The Big Brother Trivia Game Book: Trivia for the Ultimate Fan of the TV Show
$15.78
Sale 5%
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Big Brother, Little Brother (The Big, Little Series)
$10.65