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Sam Brenton (Author), Reuben Cohen (Author).

Sam Brenton (Author), Reuben Cohen (Author). In their fervent analysis of shows like Survivor and Big Brother, poet Brenton and former production assistant Cohen trace reality TV's roots-in the documentary, a medium meant to uncover injustices and effect social change; in docusoaps from the 1970s (. The American Family), which shifted the focus from the social problem to the individual encounter; and in shows like. Cops, which glorified a particular lifestyle-to argue that such programming has elevated the personal to "the level of grand narrative" in ways that are harmful to both participants and society.

Dan Chambers is not convinced by Sam Brenton and Reuben Cohen's Shooting People, a book that accuses reality TV of using torture techniques akin to those of. .Brenton and Cohen have produced a fascinating little book

Dan Chambers is not convinced by Sam Brenton and Reuben Cohen's Shooting People, a book that accuses reality TV of using torture techniques akin to those of the military - and of killing off the documentary. Brenton and Cohen have produced a fascinating little book. They are often guilty of overstating their case, and I disagree with much of what they say. But their passionate outspokenness makes this a must-read for anyone interested in the ethics of reality TV and its place in the history of television. Dan Chambers is controller of factual programmes at Five.

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Sam Brenton and Reuben Cohen draw parallels between some of the methods employed to control contestants . Sam Brenton lives and works in London. He has written several collections of poems, including The Honky's Guide to Wet Dreams and Telephone Voices.

Sam Brenton lives and works in London. He is working on his first novel.

Non-fiction, co-authored with Reuben Cohen. Hardcover: 160 pages. Publisher: Verso Books (30 April 2003). ISBN-13: 978-1859845400.

ISBN-13: 978-1908100061. Non-fiction, co-authored with Reuben Cohen. The Honky’s Guide To Wet Dreams.

In the late 1990s the television landscape underwent a seismic change as the reality game shows Big Brother and Survivor won unprecedented audiences across Europe and the US. Subjecting their contestants to protracted seclusion from the outside world, the shows offered up a novel combination of mundanity and extremity, and bred a host of imitations which ranged from the absurdly inept to the outright sadistic.

Sam Brenton and. Shooting People: Adventures in Reality TV. London and Reuben Cohen New York: Verso Books, 2003. Will Brooker and. The Audience Studies Reader. Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh. New York: Ballantine Books, 1999. One Foot on the Floor: The Curious Evolution of Sex on Television from I Love Lucy to South Park. New York: TV Books, 2000. Freakshow: First Person Media and Factual Television.

Brenton, Sam, and Reuben Cohen. New York: Verso, 2003. Originally published in 1991. Ouellette, Laurie, and James Hay. Better Living through Reality TV: Television and Post-Welfare Citizenship.

Adventures in Reality TV. ISBN: 1859845401.

Sam Brenton and Reuben Cohen, Shooting People: Adventures in Reality TV (London: Verso, 2003)

Sam Brenton and Reuben Cohen, Shooting People: Adventures in Reality TV (London: Verso, 2003). M 10/25: The Duped Subject and the Mockumentary: The Ethics of Masquerade Screening : No Lies (Mitchell Block, 1975, 23 mins); Excerpt from Blair Witch Project, and Confederate States of America Required reading : Calvyn Pryluck, Ultimately We Are All Outsiders: The Ethics of Documentary Filmmaking, in Alan Rosenthall, e. New Challenges For Documentary (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988)