Reality Television, Affect and Intimacy: Reality Matters

by Misha Kavka

Reality Television, Affect and Intimacy shifts current discussions of media and reality from the informative to the affective, from knowledge to feelings. In reality television, Misha Kavka argues, everyday 'reality' is the ground for an experience of immediacy, or televisual intimacy, that is self-evidently mediated and performed. The book explores this paradox by conceptualising the relation between affect and media. For Kavka, affect matters because...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230545505
• ISBN13: 9780230545502
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"