... by these approaches. The chapter examines the different connotations of the words ‘quiz’ and ‘game’, whilst also considering the relationship between genre and ‘format’. Finally, the chapter considers how reality game shows have impacted upon definitions of the quiz/ game show. Genre Lacey Nick Neale Steve...

...Big Brother was the first of the high-profile ‘Reality Television’ shows. Pioneered in Holland, it was imported to Britain by the production company Endemol. From the first, the programme was presented as a sociological experiment, in the vein of Stanley Milgram’s socio-psychological 1960s...

..., reality and pretence in Los farsantes exposes these contradictions. A reading of Los farsantes as auteur cinema therefore reveals the aesthetic influence of Italian Neorealism and Spanish literature on the NCE. Its contradictory production context reveals, however...

... the deconstruction of the binary division between interior and exterior to the film’s discourse on posthuman subjectivity. They focus specifically on representations of virtual reality, cinematic space and the relationship between Replicant and AI positing that BR 2049 poses fundamental questions...

...This chapter engages with how found footage horror cinema has responded to new representations of reality on television and speaks to the speed at which the subgenre adapts to and adopts new reality aesthetics. Opening with an examination of the troubled release history of The Poughkeepsie...

...James Fleury examines virtual reality in relation to Hollywood promotional strategies. As his essay explains, the virtual format may be struggling to gain mainstream adoption, but media companies continue to use it in service of their existing film, television, and video game franchises. Overall...

... Kahana Jonathan media Zimmermann Patricia actualities Discovery Channel documentary Grierson John reality television Vaughan Dai aesthetics Enlightenment the Flaherty Robert J Manhatta Marks Laura Perez Gilberto photography and ‘index’ Renov Michael technology animation ethics film...

...Noting the problematic status of standard realist notions of truth as correspondence to an autonomous reality, the chapter describes the radical reconceptualizations of truth, knowledge, scientific method and scientific progress developed by Ludwik Fleck in his influential socio-historical study...

...Since the 1980s, the term ‘reality TV’ has been used by the audiences and industry alike to refer to a wide range of programmes that focus on non-professional actors in a range of both real-life and highly contrived situations. However, regardless of the authenticity or the artificiality...

... in the philosophical frameworks of both Immanuel Kant and Arthur Schopenhauer. It explains that in his 1873 On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense, Nietzsche remained trapped within the appearance/reality distinction though he already had the conceptual resources to overcome it in his 1872...

...The conclusion summarises the main arguments of the book through commenting upon the generic terms through which melodrama establishes its relationship to reality. Because of its core problematic – the gap between expressive elevation and prosaic reality - melodrama can offer special ways...

... Hobson Dorothy Burton Graeme Ellis Carolyn Foucault Michel McCarthy Anna Seiter Ellen Holmes Susan Jermyn Deborah orientation reality TV Bazalgette Peter Big Brother Hill Annette exercises Audience reception theory Television Audiences Reality Television Audiences are problematic...

...This chapter considers how emotion functions within reality and lifestyle television. It argues that emotion is sometimes used as a social tool in a way that obscures differences of class, gender and race. Thus, while superficially operating as light entertainment, many reality or lifestyle...

... to ‘social reality.’ It considers Sapir's contention that thought is not translated into speech, but is rather the highest latent or potential content of speech. This chapter finally makes explicit what Sapir had in mind when he claimed that ‘Culture may be defined as what a society does...

..., and corporeality and physical reality are matters of continual and creative reformation. Bodies and flesh are made strange in Carter and Winterson’s work. The chapter reads the novels in tandem with new materialist feminist philosophers like Rosi Braidotti and Karen Barad, and conceptions of queer time developed...

..., to late capitalism’s externalization of everything outside human economic relations. Referencing Graham Harman’s concepts of undermining and overmining, it criticizes all kinds of default ideas about what exists and reductions of the reality of objects in the natural sciences and physics, on the one hand...

...The key claim of this chapter is that the relation between bodies and norms is at the core of the theory of performativity. Performativity is the category that says something about the reality in which we appear as embodied/gendered beings, about how this reality has been constituted for us...

... era 1950–65 technology aesthetics art direction art directors Barthes Roland bounded multifunctionalism Bramantyo Hanung ‘Hanung’ Laskar Pelangi The Rainbow Troops 2008 local and regional cultures multifunctionalism bounded period films pictorial function of lighting the reality effect...

...The introduction presents the main argument of the book, namely that there is a correlation between ontological/metaphysical ways of understanding what there is and the epistemological approaches employed to gain access to this reality. The chapter outlines the aim of the investigation, namely...

...In Mrs Dalloway, Woolf’s hostility to an idealist consensus, elevating revered abstractions above material reality, focuses upon the use of religious, nationalist and scientific rhetoric to subordinate those perceived as troublesome. Idealists of various kinds, in the text...