Television, aesthetics and reality (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Television in Portuguese daily life / Eduardo Cintra Torres -- "Brute reality": television, war and timeliness / Stuart Price -- The interculturality of morning and evening news: Sky news in Europe / Tim Oswald -- Sporting events, community building and TV coverage of EURO 2004 / Gillian Moreira -- "Framing the news" - a tri-channel analysis of an episode from the Casa Pia paedophilia scandal / Susana Pinto & Gillian Moreira -- Playing for real: recent British "mockumentary" and "docucom" television series / Anthony Barker -- DNA, surveillance and bodily realities in CSI / David Callahan -- Television drama series' incorporation of film narrative innovation: the case of 24 / Nelson Zagalo and Anthony Barker -- "Sooner than you think." The year of the sex olympics (1968) and the anticipation of reality TV / Roger Phillips -- Reality TV, game shows, globalisation, language and culture / Susan Howcroft -- Gender and reality television - classical gender ideology in ABC's The bachelor / Caryn M Voskuil -- Authentic reality TV selves: the case for melodrama / Renee Sgroi -- The communications of the self: an interdisciplinary methodology for examining Big brother / Ioanna Zampara -- The longevity of Big brother: a Portuguese perspective / Margaret Gomes