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'BIG BROTHER'. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Nov 2008, Pages: 64
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.
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