Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Show Me the Money -- Cheating -- The Public Sphere? -- Re-Scheduling - A Sample Survey -- A Public Sphere Turned Inside Out -- Notes -- 2. Klutz Films -- 'I Don't Think Anybody Believes In Objectivity Anyway . . . -- Downsizing the Documentary -- Boys Fess Up -- Nobody 's Business - But My Own -- Historical Contexts -- Notes -- 3. Camcorder Cults -- Video, Technology and Cultural Form -- Video Virus -- Zero Degree Simulation -- Reality Porn -- Video Fool for Love -- Notes -- 4. Firestarters - Re-viewing Reality TV -- What's Real about Reality TV? -- Marketing Reality -- Trash TV - Empowerment - Nightmare? -- The Disappearance of Reality -- Packaging Pathology -- Leaking Genres and Magical Helpers -- The Hollywood Ending -- unReality TV -- Notes -- 5. The Confessing Nation -- Silence is Guilt -- Opening the Box - Foucault's Confessional -- Television's Matrix of Selfhood -- It's Good to Talk - the Chat Show Debates -- Postcards from Reality - the Video Nation Project -- Notes -- 6. McDox 'R'Us - Docu-soap and the Triumph of Trivia -- The Cuckoo in the Nest -- Direct Cinema Goes Shopping -- Soap Bubbles -- The Return of the Voice of God -- Everything is Visible but Nothing Matters -- Flyblown Naturalism -- Private Characters, Public Stories -- Arguing about the World -- An Accumulation of Naturalistic Debris -- Notes -- 7. Squaring Circles -- It's Only TV? -- Public Relations -- Superfamilial Zones Of Familiarity -- Pleasure and Difference -- First Person Public Service -- Keeping It Raw -- Notes -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Bibliography -- Index -- abuse, disclosure of, 111 -- access to media 157-8 -- access to media, 4 -- accuracy, lower standards of 13 -- Airline 135 -- Airport -- 134 -- 139 -- constant pace, 144.

Allen, Benedict 61 -- America's Funniest Home Videos 58 -- America's Most Wanted -- 59 -- 81 -- 96 -- Animal Squad [1986] 134 -- anthropology -- and Chronique d'un été, 51-2 -- revival of film tradition, 61 -- visual, 21 -- anxiety 100-1 -- Armstrong, G. Blake, Reality TV 90 -- Arthur, Paul -- 40 -- 46 -- audience -- included in Video Nation, 120 -- reaction to Reality TV, 90 -- reaction to Reality TV, 99-100 -- response to chat show, 115-16 -- audience focus groups 169 -- audience ratings -- 10 -- 12 -- 84 -- for Reality TV, 82 -- for Reality TV, 82 -- for Reality TV, 99 -- for Reality TV, 99 -- authenticity, of low gauge video -- image 55 -- image 64 -- image 65 -- autobiography -- 110-11 -- confessional, 23-4 -- confessional, 23-4 -- confessional, 40-1 -- confessional, 40-1 -- Babewatch 139 -- Battle of Santiago Bay, The -- 5-6 -- 10 -- Baudrillard, J., Ecstasy of 88-9 -- BBC -- 170-1 -- Programmes Unit, 122 -- trends in factual scheduling, 19 -- Berliner, Alan, documentarist -- 47-50 -- Nobody's Business, 47-9 -- biography, and social actors 110-11 -- Birth Race [2000 ITV] 109 -- Blackton, Stuart -- 5-7 -- 9 -- Blind Date 108 -- Blues and Twos -- 80 -- 81 -- 94 -- 98 -- British Film Institute, survey of TV 12-14 -- Broadcasting Act [1990] 84 -- broadcasting, relationship with -- society 155-6 -- society 158 -- society 167 -- society 171-4 -- Broomfield, Nick, documentarist -- 28-35 -- 30 -- Aileen Wonours, 32 -- Aileen Wonours, 34 -- Driver's Wife, 31-2 -- Driver's Wife, 34 -- Driving Me Crazy, 31 -- Fetishes, 32 -- Heidi Fleiss, 32 -- Juvenile Liaison, 30 -- Kurt and Courtney, 32 -- Kurt and Courtney, 35 -- partnership with Joan Churchill, 30 -- Soldier Girls, 30 -- Tracking Down Maggie, 32 -- Tracking Down Maggie, 32 -- Tracking Down Maggie, 34 -- Tracking Down Maggie, 34 -- Calling, The 134.

Campaign for Quality Television 137 -- Candid Camera 58 -- Carlton TV -- 84 -- The Connection, 8 -- The Connection, 8 -- The Connection, 9-11 -- The Connection, 9-11 -- Catholic Church, confession in 106-7 -- Caught on Camera -- 58 -- 81 -- Channel Four 14 -- cheating -- exposés of, 8-11 -- in programme making, 5-14 -- Children's Hospital -- 99 -- 135 -- 139 -- Chronique d'un été [1961] 51-2 -- Churchill, Joan -- 29-30 -- 31 -- cinéma vérité -- 51-2 -- 134 -- 177n -- citizenship, responsibility for risk -- avoidance 79 -- avoidance 95 -- Civil Rights Movement [USA] 113 -- civil society -- and shift in public culture, 155 -- origins of, 159 -- role of documentary in, 14-15 -- Clampers, The [BBC] -- 8 -- 139 -- Clinton, Bill, US President 22-3 -- closure, importance of -- 98-100 -- 170 -- 173 -- Coalition 184n -- commentary -- in docu-soaps, 141 -- in docu-soaps, 142-4 -- neutral, 148 -- voice-over, 139 -- voice-over, 139 -- voice-over, 141 -- voice-over, 141 -- commissioning editors -- 11 -- 14 -- 156 -- and origins of docu-soap, 134 -- commodity, and packaging -- 92-3 -- 170 -- confession -- 14 -- 40 -- 172 -- as disclosure, 111-12 -- as open discourse, 107-8 -- Foucault's account of, 40 -- Foucault's account of, 105-8 -- in game shows, 108 -- in Reality TV, 80 -- in Reality TV, 86 -- rare in docu-soaps, 149-50 -- suspect, 104 -- confessional autobiography -- 23-4 -- 40-1 -- confessional chat shows -- 21 -- 103 -- 114-21 -- participants' motivations, 115-16 -- confessional moments -- 149-50 -- storylines, 141-2 -- structure, 144-5 -- Connection, The [Carlton] -- 8 -- 9-11 -- consumer protection, in TV programmes 179n -- consumerism -- 101-2 -- and docu-soaps topics, 139 -- structured, 92 -- Cops [USA] -- 81 -- 98 -- Corner, John -- 133-4 -- 153 -- 158 -- crime -- and Reality TV, 66 -- and Reality TV, 94-5.

and Reality TV, 98 -- pathologised, 95 -- reconstruction, 96 -- Crimefile [Granada series] 87 -- Crimewatch UK -- 59 -- 81 -- 96 -- Cruise, The -- 135 -- 136 -- 139 -- cult of -- 161-2 -- and docu-soap participants, 135-6 -- culture -- and identity, 26 -- and role of broadcasting, 167 -- political, 155 -- public, 155 -- public, 158 -- public, 164 -- Curran, James 15 -- Current Affair, A 59 -- Cutting Edge series -- 8 -- 11 -- trends in factual scheduling, 19-20 -- cybermedia 170 -- Dale, Peter -- 137 -- 174 -- Defence of the Realm 134 -- democracy -- and public culture, 155 -- and public culture, 158 -- and public sphere, 165-6 -- emotional, 168 -- deregulation -- 12-13 -- 82 -- 83-4 -- desire 68-9 -- deviance -- and confession, 106 -- and confession, 112 -- and Reality TV, 94-5 -- and Reality TV, 94-5 -- and Reality TV, 98 -- and Reality TV, 98 -- condemned in chat shows, 114 -- condemned in chat shows, 117-18 -- Diana, Princess of Wales, death of 23 -- difference -- 160 -- and similarity, 131 -- in Video Nation project, 122 -- in Video Nation project, 126 -- digital broadcasting -- 170 -- 174 -- Direct Cinema -- 27 -- 29-30 -- 51 -- 177n -- and video technology, 56 -- fly on the wall tradition, 147 -- Godard's critique of, 145 -- legacy of, 134 -- naturalisation of, 138-9 -- disability, in Video Nation project 125-6 -- Disaster 58 -- disasters -- melodramatic, 86 -- natural, 58 -- natural, 58 -- natural, 80 -- natural, 80 -- disclosure -- as mode of confession, 111-12 -- in Video Nation project, 126-7 -- discourses of sobriety 15-16 -- docu-soaps -- 21 -- 133-5 -- 172 -- as entertainment, 136-7 -- economics of, 137 -- editing and commentary, 142-4 -- form and structure, 140-2 -- participants as celebrities, 135-6 -- set ups in, 139 -- documentary -- and civic society, 14-15.

as 'discourses of sobriety', 15-16 -- as entertainment, 36 -- as entertainment, 136-7 -- confessional autobiography, 40-1 -- emblematic subject, 124 -- emblematic subject, 125 -- observational, 135 -- observational, 138-9 -- observational, 144 -- overlaps with narrative fiction, 150 -- reflexive, 27 -- serious, 133-4 -- serious, 136-7 -- traditional compared with popular, 4 -- traditional compared with popular, 4 -- traditional compared with popular, 11-12 -- traditional compared with popular, 11-12 -- traditional, 21 -- traditional, 110 -- Drew, Robert 29 -- Driving School 135 -- editing -- docu-soaps, 142-4 -- Reality TV, 94 -- video diaries, 73 -- video, 63-4 -- Emergency -- 80 -- 81 -- 98 -- emergency services -- 81 -- 94 -- as heroes, 1 -- as heroes, 1 -- as heroes, 97-8 -- as heroes, 97-8 -- as heroes, 102 -- as heroes, 102 -- emotional democracy 168 -- employment, changing nature of -- 13 -- 101-2 -- empowerment -- 168 -- and identity, 113 -- and right to security, 87-8 -- of television, 79 -- Reality TV as, 85-8 -- Reality TV as, 91 -- Social Action Broadcasting, 87 -- Enlightenment 160 -- essentialism, humanist 163-4 -- ethical debate 168 -- exhibitionism 25 -- experience, shared -- 127 -- 128 -- 129 -- 150-1 -- as public service domain, 14-15 -- new forms of, 12 -- new forms of, 16-17 -- new forms of, 21-2 -- schedule analysis, 17-21 -- Family Viewing 69-70 -- Family, The [1974] 134 -- fear -- and anxiety about risk, 100-1 -- and security, 99 -- feminism -- 52 -- and confessional chat show, 114-15 -- and confessional chat show, 116 -- and confessional chat show, 121 -- impact of, 168 -- film-maker, as anti-hero 33 -- first person media -- 1 -- 2 -- 26 -- 104 -- 162 -- 172 -- docu-soaps, 138 -- docu-soaps, 149 -- video diaries, 76-7 -- first person plural speech [abstract] 165.

first person singular speech 154.