TV Formats Worldwide

TV Formats WorldwideThis book redresses the balance of reality shows and the program format as a central mode of business and culture in the new television landscape. It explores topics such as reality TV, makeover programs, sitcoms, talent shows, fiction serials, broadcaster management policies, production decision chains and audience participation processes.

Truth or Dare examines the clash between the authenticity claimed by documentaries and their association with imagination and experimental contemporary art

the clash of ideologies and the ways of portraying them in literary form

A short history of liberalism since the 1820s

John Harvey

in consequence

A critical introduction to the complex world of the credit rating industry: how it works

record office documents

and its potential for insurgent forms of civic engagement and democracy-building

the studio world

Combining Soviet and post-Soviet critical Marxism with Western Marxism and political economy with culture and theorizes knowledge and information commodification

• The disintegration of nation states along the eastern flank

Giovanni Pontiero's acclaimed critical edition provides English-speaking students with an introduction to