International in scope and more comprehensive than existing collections,A Companion to Reality Televisionpresents a complete guide to the study of reality, factual and nonfiction television entertainment, encompassing a wide range of formats and incorporating cutting-edge work in critical, social and political theory.Original in bringing cutting-edge work in critical, social and political theory into the conversation about reality TVConsolidates the latest, broadest range of scholarship on the politics of reality television and its vexed relationship to culture, society, identity, democracy, and “ordinary people” in the mediaIncludes primetime reality entertainment as well as precursors such as daytime talk shows in the scope of discussionContributions from a list of international, leading scholars in this field