Name: Reality Television, Affect and Intimacy
ISBN: 978-0-230-54550-2

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M. Kavka

M. Kavka

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Part of the book series: Language, Discourse, Society (LDS)

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Reality Television, Affect and Intimacy explains the appeal of reality television in terms of the affective power of the mediated image. In place of common objections that reality TV is 'not real', Misha Kavka argues that the feelings of intimacy engendered by unscripted drama are both real and socially informative.

Keywords

media
media studies
television

About the author

MISHA KAVKA teaches in the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the co-editor of two books, Feminist Consequences (2001) and Gothic NZ: The Darker Side of Kiwi Culture (2006), and has published numerous articles on reality television, gothic film and feminist theory.

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Book Title: Reality Television, Affect and Intimacy
Book Subtitle: Reality Matters
Authors: M. Kavka
Series Title: Language, Discourse, Society
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-54550-2Published: 31 October 2008
Series ISSN: 2947-0188
Series E-ISSN: 2947-0196
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 191

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