Big Brother Reality TV in the Twenty-First Century

Jonathan Bignell presents a wide-ranging analysis of the television phenomenon of the early twenty-first century: Reality TV, exploring its cultural and political meanings, explaining the genesis of the form and its relationship to contemporary television

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Jonathan Bignell

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Big Brother

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Big Brother

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Also by Jonathan Bignell AN INTRODUCTION TO TELEVISION STUDIES BRITISH TELEVISION DRAMA: Past Present and Future (coeditor) MEDIA SEMIOTICS: An Introduction POPULAR TELEVISION DRAMA: Critical Perspectives (coeditor)

THE TELEVISION HANDBOOK, THIRD EDITION (co-author) TERRY NATION (co-author) WRITING AND CINEMA (editor)

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POSTMODERN MEDIA CULTURE

Big Brother

Jonathan Bignell

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Reality TV in the Twenty-first Century

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