{"product_id":"big-brother-the-reality-ioannis-vamvakitis-9783639101355","title":"'BIG BROTHER' - The 'Reality Show' as a Globalized 'Post- Documentary' Form","description":"In this book I am attempting to scrutinise the Big Brother show (Endemol, 1999) - the archetype of the 'reality show' genre (Cummings, D, 2002, xii) - as a cultural product of our 'post-modern-late capitalism' era (Jameson, F, 1993, xii). In specific, I am focusing on its function as a pop- culture globalised 'post-documentary' form that, on the one hand, reflects our era's 'post-modern' dimension, and through the space-time processes decontextualises space (geography) and time (history), and thus, distorts our sense of the 'real' and transcends the cultural borders; while on the other hand, reflects our era's 'late- capitalism' dimension, and thus, the western capitalistic spaces, (pop-) cultural symbols and social dynamics. Therefore, Big Brother, enhances the globalisation process in the form of westernisation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ioannis Vamvakitis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3639101359\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783639101355\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e VDM Verlag\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/12\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.13d","brand":"Ioannis Vamvakitis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48446278795519,"sku":"9783639101355","price":52.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ffee080a-c862-491f-a371-cc5b566a2d08.jpg?v=1777223684","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/big-brother-the-reality-ioannis-vamvakitis-9783639101355","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}