Restyling Factual TV Audiences and News, Documentary and Reality Genres [Paperback]

Addressing the wide range of programmes and formats from news, to documentary, to popular factual genres, Annette Hills new book examines the ways viewers navigate their way through a busy, noisy and constantly changing factual television environment.

Restyling Factual TVaddresses the wide range of programmes that fall within the category of 'factuality', from politics, to natural history, to reality entertainment.

Based on research with audiences of factual TV, primarily in Sweden and the UK, but with reference to other countries such as the US, this book tackles issues such as legitimacy, ethics and value in contemporary news and current affairs, documentary and reality programming.

Drawing on the ethics of truth-telling and notions of quality, this wide-ranging, authoritative book expands the debate on popular factual entertainment and will be a welcome addition to the current literature.

Acknowledgements  1. Restyling Factuality  2. Mapping Factual TV  3. Public and Popular  4. Genre Work  5. Truth Claims  6. Knowledge and Learning  7. Participation  8. Containing Factuality  References  Appendix

Restyling Factual TVis a major contribution to our understanding of audience responses to the reality formats on television. The comparative perspective, involving British and Swedish audiences, is particularly rewarding, and much needed, since international reality formats are adapted to national settings.

G?ran Bolin, Professor of Media & Communication Studies, S?dert?rn University College, Sweden

 

Hill gives fresh momentum and focus to the agenda of audience research. In exploring how the reworking of factual forms is affecting cultures of viewing, she poses some pressing questil“8