The Politics of Reality Television: Global Perspectives

• the global circulation and local adaptation of reality television formats and franchises
• the production of fame and celebrity around hitherto "ordinary" people
• the transformation of self under the public eye
• the tensions between fierce loyalties to local representatives and imagined communities bonding across regional and ethnic divides
• the struggle over the meanings and values of reality television across a range of national, regional, gender, class and religious contexts.

This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students on a range of Media and Television Studies courses, particularly those on the globalisation of television and media, and reality television.