Publications

Publication details [#49271]

Penzhorn, Heidi and Magriet Pitout. 2007. A critical-historical genre analysis of reality television. Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research 33 (2) : 62–76.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

genre | historical explanation | reality | television

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Besides a historical genre perspective to define the historical roots and to identify the genre conventions of reality television, this paper proposes the use of the hybrid mix model to define the unique, formalistic features of reality television programmes.