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A companion to reality television
International in scope and more comprehensive than existing collections, this book presents a complete guide to the study of reality, factual, and nonfiction television entertainment, encompassing a wide range of formats and incorporating cutting-edge work in critical, social, and political theory.
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The Atlantic realists : empire and international political thought between Germany and the United States
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The Pathos of the Real
This book is about the ambition, in a set of paradigmatic writers of the twentieth century, to simultaneously enlist and break the spell of the real—their fascination with the spectacle of violence and suffering—and the difficulties involved in capturing this kind of excess by aesthetic means.
The works at the center of this study—by Franz Kafka, Georges Bataille, Claude Simon, Peter Weiss, and Heiner Müller—zero in on scenes of agony, destruction, and death with an astonishing degree of precision and detail. The strange and troubling nature of the appeal engendered by these sights is the subject of The Pathos of the Real. Robert Buch shows that the spectacles of suffering conjured up in these texts are deeply ambivalent, available neither to cathartic relief nor to the sentiment of compassion. What prevails instead is a peculiar coincidence of opposites: exaltation and resignation; disfiguration and transfiguration; agitation and paralysis.
Featuring the experiences of violent excess in strongly visual and often in expressly pictorial terms, the works expose the nexus between violence and the image in twentieth-century aesthetics. Buch explores this tension between visual and verbal representation by drawing on the rhetorical notion of pathos as both insurmountable suffering and codified affect and the psychoanalytic notion of the real, that is, the disruption of the symbolic order.
In dialogue with a diverse group of thinkers, from Erich Auerbach and Aby Warburg to Alain Badiou and Jacques Lacan, The Pathos of the Real advances an innovative new framework for rethinking the aesthetics of violence in the twentieth century.
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The Makeover
The first book to consider the rapid rise of makeover
shows from the perspectives of their viewers Watch this
show, buy this product, you can be a whole new you! Makeover
television shows repeatedly promise self-renewal and the
opportunity for reinvention, but what do we know about the people
who watch them? As it turns out, surprisingly little. The
Makeover is the first book to consider the rapid rise of
makeover shows from the perspectives of their viewers. Katherine
Sender argues that this genre of reality television continues a
long history of self-improvement, shaped through contemporary
media, technological, and economic contexts. Most people think that
reality television viewers are ideological dupes and obliging
consumers. Sender, however, finds that they have a much more
nuanced and reflexive approach to the shows they watch. They are
critical of the instruction, the consumer plugs, and the
manipulative editing in the shows. At the same time, they buy into
the shows' imperative to construct a reflexive self: an inner self
that can be seen as if from the outside, and must be explored and
expressed to others. The Makeover intervenes in debates about both
reality television and audience research, offering the concept of
the reflexive self to move these debates forward.
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Reality Television and Arab Politics
What does it mean to be modern outside the West? Based on a wealth of primary data collected over five years, Reality Television and Arab Politics analyzes how reality television stirred an explosive mix of religion, politics, and sexuality, fuelling heated polemics over cultural authenticity, gender relations, and political participation in the Arab world. The controversies, Kraidy argues, are best understood as a social laboratory in which actors experiment with various forms of modernity, continuing a long-standing Arab preoccupation with specifying terms of engagement with Western modernity. Women and youth take center stage in this process. Against the backdrop of dramatic upheaval in the Middle East, this book challenges the notion of a monolithic 'Arab Street' and offers an original perspective on Arab media, shifting attention away from a narrow focus on al-Jazeera, toward a vibrant media sphere that compels broad popular engagement and contentious political performance.
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The history of the future : Oculus, Facebook, and the revolution that swept virtual reality
\"The ... true story behind the founding of Oculus and its quest for virtual reality\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Reality television
Reality television remains a pervasive form of television programming within our culture. The new mantra is go big or go home, be weird or be invisible. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty, for example, are arguably two of the most compelling reality television programs currently airing because of their uniqueness and ability to transcend traditional boundaries in this genre. Reality Television: Oddities of Culture seeks to explore not the mundane reality programs, but rather those programs that illustrate the odd, unique or peculiar aspects of our society. This anthology will explore such programs across the categories of culture, gender, and celebrity.
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