Religion and Reality TV
Faith in Late Capitalism
Gebonden Engels 2018 9781138681279Samenvatting
Why is reality television flourishing in today's expanding media market? Religion and Reality TV: Faith in Late Capitalism argues that the reality genre offers answers to many of life's urgent questions: Why am I important? What gives my life meaning? How do I present my best self to the world? Case studies address these questions by examining religious representations through late capitalist lenses, including the maintenance of the self, the commodification of the sacred, and the performance of authenticity. The book's fourteen essays explore why religious themes proliferate in reality TV, audiences' fascination with "lived religion," and the economics that make religion and reality TV a successful pairing. Chapters also consider the role of race, gender, and religion in the production and reception of programming.
Religion and Reality TV provides a framework for understanding the intersection of celebrity, media attention, beliefs, and values. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of religion and media studies, communication, American studies, and popular culture.
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Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Part I: Maintenance of the self
- Flaunting Christian patriarchy in the 21st century: Todd Chrisley’s straight guy with the queer eye
- Diane Winston
- Making over body and soul: gender, selfhood, and parables of spiritual neoliberalism on Makeover TV
- Brenda R. Weber
- Black female sexual agency and racialized holy sex in black Christian reality TV shows
- Monique Moultrie
Part II: The performance of authenticity
- "This is just an incredible God thing": monetized domesticity in bottom-up media
- Katherine Madden
- "The renovation starts now!": rite-of-passage reality television
- Erica Hurwitz Andrus
- When the most popular format reaches the most atypical country: reality TV and religion in Israel
- Yoel Cohen and Amir Hetsroni
- All-American cancellation: spectacle and neoliberal performativity in All-American Muslim
- Melinda Q. Brennan
Part III: Niche markets
- Sister Wives: the Protestantization of Mormon polygamy
- Myev Rees
- Paranormal reality television: audience engagement with mediums and spirit communication
- Annette Hill
- Conjuring spirits in a neoliberal era: ghost reality television, Third Wave spiritual warfare, and haunting pasts
- Sean McCloud
- Amish reality and reality TV "Amishness": agonism in the cultural marketplace
- Stewart M. Hoover
Part IV: Commodification of the sacred
- Praying for reality: the invisible hand in Downey and Burnett's Answered Prayers
- Sharon Lauricella
- "The search for a young Imam begins now": Imam Muda and civilizational Islam in Malaysia
- Andrea Stanton
- Preachers of Oxygen: franchising faith on reality TV
Mara Einstein
Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan