Reality television, affect and intimacy : reality matters / Misha Kavka.
"Reality Television, Affect and Intimacy shifts current discussions of media and reality from the informative to the affective, from knowledge to feelings. In reality television, Misha Kavka argues, everyday 'reality' is the ground for an experience of immediacy, or televisual intimac...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Basingstoke [England] ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2008.
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| Series: | Language, discourse, society.
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| Summary: | "Reality Television, Affect and Intimacy shifts current discussions of media and reality from the informative to the affective, from knowledge to feelings. In reality television, Misha Kavka argues, everyday 'reality' is the ground for an experience of immediacy, or televisual intimacy, that is self-evidently mediated and performed. The book explores this paradox by conceptualising the relation between affect and media. For Kavka, affect matters because the feelings generated across the screen are real in a material way. Investigating such concepts as publicity and privacy in reality TV families, performance technologies in Big Brother, arranged marriages in romance reality TV, and gender, race and sexuality in Survivor and Project Runway, she argues that affect is the core reality of a public sphere that is of affective intimacies, this book offers the rich realities of feeling as a critical alternative to traditional communication models."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 191 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-186) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0230545505 (alk. paper) 9780230545502 (alk. paper) |