Audience (Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies)

Politics & Social Sciences

Wood, Helen

Social Sciences

Routledge

This book is designed to offer students an accessible and interesting pathway through the various and distinct approaches to audiences in order to demonstrate their relevance to the contemporary media environment. Much emphasis in writing about audience research has been to consider the relationship between passivity and activity, with some media and cultural studies research being criticized for over-celebrating the activity of the audience. This book uses audience action as its framework, aiming to overcome the easy assumptions about the ‘active audience’ as necessarily resistive in order to discuss the ways in which activities are variously connected to questions of power, social location and geography. In doing so it offers an explanatory route through shifts in established paradigms but it always asks how these paradigms might address new research agendas. The book breaks out of traditional organisations of audience studies textbooks which either reinforce distinctions in paradigms or group together key media and genres. Instead, the book is organised around modes of audience activity to cut across these groupings. The chapters structured around a number of verbs which have come to represent some of the changing ways in which audiences have been researched and conceptualised, working towards an agenda for the current media environment.

Reacting to Reality Television: Performance, Audience and Value

The unremitting explosion of reality television across the schedules has become a sustainable global phenomenon generating considerable popular and political fervour. The zeal with which television executives seize on the easily replicated formats is matched equally by the eagerness of audiences to offer themselves up as television participants for others to watch and criticise. But how do we react to so many people breaking down, fronting up, tearing apart, dominating, empathising, humiliating, and seemingly laying bare their raw emotion for our entertainment? Do we feel sad when others are sad? Or are we relieved by the knowledge that our circumstances might be better? As reality television extends into the experiences of the everyday, it makes dramatic and often shocking the mundane aspects of our intimate relations, inviting us as viewers into a volatile arena of mediated morality. This book addresses the impact of this endless opening out of intimacy as an entertainment trend that erodes the traditional boundaries between spectator and performer demanding new tools for capturing television’s relationships with audiences. Rather than asking how the reality television genre is interpreted as ‘text’ or representation the authors investigate the politics of viewer encounters as interventions, evocations, and more generally mediated social relations. The authors show how different reactions can involve viewers in tournaments of value, as women viewers empathise and struggle to validate their own lives. The authors use these detailed responses to challenge theories of the self, governmentality and ideology. A must read for both students and researchers in audience studies, television studies and media and communication studies.

Skeggs, Beverley

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The numbers of unmarried cohabiting couples continue to increase. As a result for family lawyers and private client lawyers, law and practice relating to this area continues to grow in significance. This fifth edition of Cohabitation: Law, Practice and Precedents has been extensively revised to take account of the UK's Family Procedure Rules 2010 and includes a new section on welfare benefits, as well as analysis of significant UK case law, such as the Supreme Court's ruling in Kernott v Jones. In this book, practitioners will find authoritative analysis of the applicable UK law and expert guidance on procedural issues, whether preparing a cohabitation contract or ante-nuptial agreement, drafting wills for cohabiting couples, advising on rights on the breakdown of a relationship or the death of a partner, or applying for a personal protection order or a parental responsibility agreement. Cohabitation: Law, Practice and Precedents is the only work on the subject to provide commentary, checklists, procedural guides, and precedents in a single volume, making it an invaluable aid to all practitioners advising unmarried couples. This fifth edition comes with a CD-ROM containing all the precedents covered in the volume.

Cohabitation: Law, Practice and Precedents

Bishop, David

Lush, Denzil

Family Law

Jordans Pub

The continuing increase in unmarried cohabiting couples means that the law and practice relating to cohabitation continues to grow in significance for family and private client lawyers. The popular Cohabitation: Law Practice and Precedents provides an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the law and practice in the UK relating to cohabitants, together with practical precedent materials. Whether preparing a cohabitation contract, drafting wills for cohabiting couples, advising on rights on relationship breakdown or the death of a partner, or applying for a personal protection order or a parental responsibility agreement, practitioners will find authoritative analysis of the applicable law and expert guidance on procedural issues. This new edition has been extensively revised to take account of the prospective changes introduced by the Adoption and Children Act 2002, the implementation of the Land Registration Act 2002, as well as significant new case-law particularly in relation to property matters.

Cohabitation: Law, Practice And Precedents

Administrative Law

The numbers of unmarried cohabiting couples continue to increase, with the result that the law and practice relating to this area continues to grow insignificance for family and private client lawyers. This new edition of Cohabitation: Law Practice and Precedents has been extensively revised to take account of all procedural developments, as well as analysis of significant case-law. Whether preparing a cohabitation contract or pre-nuptial agreement, drafting wills for cohabiting couples, advising on rights on the breakdown of a relationship or the death of a partner, or applying for a personal protection order or a parental responsibility agreement, practitioners will find authoritative analysis of the applicable law and expert guidance on procedural issues. Cohabitation: Law, Practice and Precedents is the only work on the subject to provide commentary, checklists, procedural guides and precedents in a single volume making it an invaluable aid to all practitioners advising unmarried couples. This new edition comes with a CD-ROM containing all the precedents covered in the volume.

Cook, JameS

Salter, David

Murray, Ashley

Eames, John

Harrop, Mark

Jordan Publishing Limited

The numbers of unmarried cohabiting couples continue to increase, with the result that the law and practice relating to this area continues to grow insignificance for family and private client lawyers. This new edition of Cohabitation: Law Practice and Precedents has been extensively revised to take account of all procedural developments, as well as analysis of significant case-law.Whether preparing a cohabitation contract or pre-nuptial agreement, drafting wills for cohabiting couples, advising on rights on the breakdown of a relationship or the death of a partner, or applying for a personal protection order or a parental responsibility agreement, practitioners will find authoritative analysis of the applicable law and expert guidance on procedural issues.Cohabitation: Law, Practice and Precedents is the only work on the subject to provide commentary, checklists, procedural guides and precedents in a single volume making it an invaluable aid to all practitioners advising unmarried couples.

Ward, Emily

Dupre, Lisette

Reality Television and Class

How does class get 'cast' and made performative? What modes are there for people to wrestle-back their forms of representation? And how should we understand this intense manipulation of feeling? This bookexamines why class politics matter against much political and academic rhetoric which refract inequality through other means.

Humor & Entertainment

Television

British Film Institute

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